IRC log for #gllug on 20070328

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06:07.59morsinghali: Yes
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06:11.40morsingping boudiccas
06:17.14morsingping Leeds
06:22.00morsingibot wake Leeds
06:22.09ibotACTION throws a barrel-full of ice water on Leeds and shouts "GOOD MORNING!!!!"
06:43.42Leedswhat?
06:44.11morsingHow are you?
06:45.28Leedsworried about work
06:46.49Leedsyou?
06:51.35morsingMe too
06:51.41morsingThese job agents are vultures
06:52.12morsingWhy can't they give me a day or two to think if I want to go to an interview or if I want to accept a job offer :(
06:55.26LeedsI'm sick of people complaining about how many offers they've got
06:56.26morsingMove back to England. Or specialise in AIX
07:03.22Leedsor marry someone with a visa
07:06.55morsingJasmine? Has she accepted?
07:07.07morsingCarly's looking for a new (rich) husband...
07:08.24morsingInterested?
07:08.29Leedsno
07:08.31Leedsshe's mad
07:09.17morsing:)
07:09.24morsingShe's cuddky though...?
07:09.30morsings/cuddky/cuddly/
07:10.13morsingibot wake boudiccas
07:10.28ibotACTION throws a barrel-full of ice water on boudiccas and shouts "GOOD MORNING!!!!"
07:16.50boudiccasmorsing; morning
07:16.53morsingboudiccas: :)
07:17.10boudiccaswhy are you called 'twosheds'???
07:17.19morsingI'm not! My friend is
07:17.26morsingAnd I told you why yesterday?
07:17.26boudiccaswhy???
07:17.34boudiccasdidnt see it
07:17.51morsinghttp://www.morsing.cc/TwoSheds_why.jpg
07:18.07morsingboudiccas: You're not a big Monty Python fan I take it?
07:18.31boudiccasyes, but i dont remember 'twosheds'
07:18.49morsingRight, Google for "Arthur Twosheds Jackson"
07:19.07morsinghttp://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Scripts/ArthurTwoShedsJackson
07:19.59boudiccaslol ... i see now
07:25.35morsingYes, make yourself scarce, "Two Sheds".  This studio isn't big enough
07:25.35morsing<PROTECTED>
07:25.39morsing:)
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07:33.55morsingSlayerXP!
07:34.03SlayerXPre
07:34.46morsingReally funny thing is that TwoSheds' actually been thinking about buying a third shed! (Seriously)
07:36.06morsingGet your own Arts programme, you fairy!
07:36.08morsing:)
07:39.23morsingSlayerXP: How are you?
07:40.54SlayerXPsomewhat pissed off
07:42.15morsingNice
07:42.23morsingWhy?
07:43.02SlayerXPvarious complicated reasons
07:43.08morsingTax?
07:43.21morsingDid you get done for not prominently displaying your company name?
07:44.29SlayerXPno, I still don't beleive I'm required to
07:45.03morsingYou are...
07:45.58SlayerXPthe relevant section of legislation is....?
07:50.02morsingSearch for prominently:
07:50.02morsinghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onelife/legal/the_law/corp.shtml
07:50.27morsinghttp://www.gov.im/fsc/companies/companiesinformation.xml
07:51.50morsingSlayerXP: Go here:
07:51.51morsinghttp://www.nutsforneon.com/
07:51.58morsingAnd you're sorted
07:52.25SlayerXP"All companies have to: 'prominently display' the company name, address and type of business at:
07:52.25SlayerXP<PROTECTED>
07:52.26SlayerXP"
07:52.46SlayerXPi'd have to display the logo on the front of 4 racks in various datacentres
07:54.06SlayerXPyou're thinking in terms of a business where people can turn up and visit
07:54.20SlayerXPthat's N/A for the vast majority of contractors
07:58.45morsingNo - it's at the business address
07:58.52morsingYou're not exempt
07:59.22morsingSlayerXP: You suck!
08:10.33SlayerXP*shrug* it's been 5 years.  I doubt anyone actually cares.
08:11.35morsingI still think a massive neon-sign is the way to go...
08:12.10sabinef72morning !
08:14.41morsingsabinef72!
08:15.21SlayerXPla chaud femme francais!
08:15.32morsingMmm... Chaud
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08:19.57morsingmumperer!
08:20.16mumperermorsing! :)
08:20.52mumpererluvverly sunny day!
08:20.56morsingIndeed
08:21.09morsingMr. Jackson, I think, with respect, we ought to return to the
08:21.09morsing<PROTECTED>
08:23.08mumpererFound bad things on the web last night: villainous sadsacks are building an eyesore bridge across the old Taw estuary at Barnstaple!
08:23.52bilarhibot change 599 USD to GBP
08:24.00bilarhibot change 599 usd to gbp
08:25.04mumpererorrite - so what's this symphony then?
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08:25.09morsingasht_007!
08:25.41morsingYes, a little.  Good Lord!  You're the man who interviewed Sir Edward
08:25.41morsing<PROTECTED>
08:25.46asht_007hey morsing
08:25.59asht_007u any good with mysql master slave replication
08:26.08morsingNo#
08:26.17asht_007ah
08:29.26morsingThen you'll be Arthur 'No Sheds' Jackson, eh?
08:31.08morsingmorsing: You suck!
08:31.11morsingmorsing: I know
08:35.15bilarhi love it when we're "going live" and then "not going live"
08:35.17bilarhfive times :)
08:41.15morsingNice
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08:56.47morsingniv_one_three!
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09:14.33morsinggoibhniu!
09:14.59goibhniumorsing!
09:33.06morsingCheck it!
09:44.08morsingMmm... My colleagues filling just fell ou tonto his desk... Nice
09:44.58goibhniuhis filling? like his giblets?
09:45.08goibhniumorsing: he may have ebola
09:49.16morsingNice
09:49.22morsingibot giblets
09:49.42morsinggoibhniu: No - from his teeth
09:50.49goibhniu~wiki giblets
09:51.32bilarh~wiki ibot
09:51.48Leeds~wiki wiki
09:52.37goibhniuibot your cover has been blown!
09:52.41bilarh~wiki spam
09:53.33bilarhibot calculate 370 * 1.175
09:53.50bilarh:(
09:53.58Leedsibot 370 * 1.175
09:53.59ibot434.75
09:54.05morsingibot 45*87
09:54.07ibot3915
09:54.13Leedsibot sqr(-1)
09:54.14morsingibot 3*Leeds
09:55.55bilarhibot 1 / 0
09:56.01goibhniuLeeds: ibot obviously has very little imagination
09:56.05morsingibot**ibot
09:56.13morsingibot: You suck
09:56.14ibotno, *you* suck!
09:56.17goibhniuibot why
09:56.18ibotBecause!
09:56.18morsing:)
09:56.24morsingibot 42
09:56.25ibotmethinks 42 is the answer to life the universe and everything, see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_answer_to_life,_the_universe,_and_everything
09:56.37goibhniuibot Chesney Hawkes
09:58.51morsingibot Dave Harris
09:58.53ibotmethinks dave harris is a lawyer from Harrogate
10:01.10wethrinheh
10:03.57bilarhibot bilarh
10:04.09ibot[bilarh] making a fool of himself, as usual, or mad, or a java monkey and abuses log4j
10:04.18bilarh!!
10:06.37bilarhibot bilarh cool dude
10:06.47morsingwethrin: heh?
10:06.48bilarhibot bilarh
10:06.51ibothmm... bilarh is making a fool of himself, as usual, or mad, or a java monkey and abuses log4j
10:07.02bilarhibot: bastard!
10:07.04ibotYes, I am!
10:07.06haliabuse log4j?
10:07.08morsingibot bilarh is also not a cool dude
10:07.10ibotmorsing: okay
10:07.10haliis that possible even?
10:07.21morsingibot bilarh
10:07.23ibotextra, extra, read all about it, bilarh is making a fool of himself, as usual, or mad, or a java monkey and abuses log4j, or not a cool dude
10:07.23antiphaseibot your mum
10:07.24ibotNo, _your_ mum!
10:08.27bilarhibot bilarh is a cool dude
10:08.28ibot...but bilarh is already something else...
10:09.00bilarhibot bilarh format c:
10:09.10Leedsibot bilarh is also a cool dude, apparently
10:09.11ibotLeeds: okay
10:09.23bilarhibot bilarh
10:09.25ibotyou are probably making a fool of himself, as usual, or mad, or a java monkey and abuses log4j, or not a cool dude, or a cool dude, apparently
10:09.25Leedsbilarh: 'also' to add to a fact
10:09.39bilarhso how do i remove the log4j rubbish? :)
10:09.53morsingHow weird...
10:10.14bilarhibot bilarh is a cool dude, apparently
10:10.15ibot...but bilarh is already something else...
10:10.23morsingbilarh: In Sweden...?
10:11.19morsingI can't believe that people here find it so unusual that a married couple takes the woman's name...
10:11.26wethrinheh!
10:11.37bilarhmorsing: what?
10:11.39morsingThat's just odd. And on Wikipedia it's completely left out
10:11.50bilarhi guess it's a bit like... are you a man or a mouse? :P
10:12.00wethrinmorsing: Where do they do that?
10:12.10morsingLike it explains that women sometimes chose to keep their own (seperate) names and why...
10:12.27morsingwethrin: Well, it's quite common in DK. Take me fx...
10:12.45morsingBut it always confuses people, banks etc
10:12.57wethrinAhh
10:13.06wethrinHere it's more common to take the husband's name
10:13.15goibhniumorsing: fix it! that's ridiculous!
10:13.16morsingYesterday, I tried putting in these security questions on a website and it said to me "That's not allowed as your mother's maiden name"
10:13.25wethrinerrr?
10:13.36morsingwethrin: It's more common in DK as well but here it's almost "illegal"
10:13.46morsingPeople go all weird about it
10:13.46wethrinWho are they to decide what your mother's maiden name is?
10:13.48bilarhand so it should be!
10:13.52morsingwethrin: Exactly
10:13.57morsingbilarh: Why?
10:14.07bilarhbecause it's almost the only privilege us men have left :)
10:14.18wethrinUnless you had it the same as your family name, in which case there may be a security thing in there
10:14.20antiphaseWe pwn da biatches
10:14.26bilarhwe have to unite in face of this dangerous movement called 'feminism' :)
10:14.26goibhniuI think in spain it's illegal to give a child a name that isn't in the bible
10:14.34morsingMy dad's birth name is one of the most common and boring ones. I'm glad I don't have that
10:15.01morsinggoibhniu: It's the opposite in DK :)
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10:15.09morsingdick_turpin!
10:15.18goibhniudk rawkks!
10:15.18morsingdick_turpin: Give me my mum's name back!
10:15.23morsingReeks?
10:16.16dick_turpinmorsing: WTF you on abou? I was hoping to get some sanity here but it looks like those hopes are dashed too
10:16.22dick_turpinabout
10:17.16bilarhdick_turpin: he was a mouse and now he's upset about it :(
10:18.15wethringoibhniu: not convinced by that....
10:18.44dick_turpinbilarh: Waht? please guys don't do this to me or I'll give you a run down of my morning so far
10:18.49dick_turpinwhat
10:18.55bilarhdick_turpin: shoot!
10:19.15bilarhdick_turpin: for your benefit, we were discussing naming after marriage
10:20.12goibhniudick_turpin: he's surprised and disappointed by the excessive influence of the chesney hawkes penis god patriarchal "norm" on "free" society
10:20.13goibhniudick_turpin: and you should be too
10:20.13bilarhdick_turpin: and which party's surname should be propagated to the other's
10:20.14morsingOuch...!
10:21.15dick_turpinooh some of them can be pretty cool sounding
10:22.12dick_turpingoibhniu-morsing pronounced goibhniu-hyphen-morsing for example
10:26.38wethrinWill you pronounce it Throat-warbler Mangrove?
10:27.19dick_turpingoibhniu: Shouldn't that be Goibhniu Hymen?
10:30.04goibhniuwethrin: I couldn't, I'd be mistaken for my mother
10:30.44morsingNice
10:33.32goibhniumorsing: call dave harris ... you could be rich!
10:34.10morsingNice
10:34.27morsinggoibhniu: What's you maiden name?
10:36.12goibhniumorsing: there is no marriage in the eyes of the Swordfish
10:37.24bilarhibot change 1100 usd to gbp
10:37.37bilarhhmm
10:37.42bilarhstuff is so much cheaper in the states
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10:39.10halicorrect, everything is cheaper in the us
10:39.10haliexcpet hookers im told
10:39.32wethrinYes, but you get stung for shipping
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10:42.49dick_turpinI'm gonna kill something in a minute!!!!
10:45.36wethrinKill BT Openworld!
10:46.15dick_turpinWe are being upgraded so the line keeps dropping
10:48.55dick_turpinAnyone here do telephone support? if you do you have my un-dying admiration the words I'd like to use here for the call I've just had would make grown men cry
10:50.07morsingJust to clear up the confusion, Al's mate Andy is not my four year old nephew
10:50.49wethrinIs he from Harrogate, though?
10:51.04wethrindick_turpin: Do tell....
10:51.28morsingNo
10:52.06dick_turpinwethrin I'd love to but it'd take too long
10:54.36dick_turpinYou're all clever guys? Forget video phones etc I want a phone where I can put my fist down the mouth piece and biff the recipient in the gob!
10:54.51wethrin:)
10:55.01SlayerXPdick_turpin: by that logic, you'd punch them in the ear
10:55.08SlayerXPwhich works, too
10:56.18dick_turpinSlayerXP: Ah but you'd invent the wizardry that would convert the fist to come out their mouth piece
10:57.50dick_turpin8 times I said "forget the media player for a minute, now click on that movie" fuc... shi.... cun..... bugg.... fuc.....
10:59.57dick_turpinthey are now downloading quicktime on a dialup thats got rid of em for a couple of hours
11:00.20wethrindick_turpin: Better run off home 20 minutes before their download completes
11:01.04dick_turpinwethrin: TBH You may have a point I bet I've just dug an even deeper hole for myself
11:02.36dick_turpinGot an even better one, Customer wants a drive copy of a laptop but it must be done on their premises with paper work saying it was done here, they are 30 mile away oh and he wants it doing now. tosser
11:14.01wethrinBuh
11:19.45goibhniudick_turpin: you're allowed to kill people in certain circumstances .. you should ask dave harris
11:20.54dick_turpingoibhniu: Who's Dave Harris?
11:21.12goibhniudick_turpin: ask ibot
11:21.27dick_turpinibot: who's dave harris
11:22.44dick_turpingoibhniu: ibot hates me because I said he was thick
11:22.52wethrinibot hate
11:22.53ibotI hate idiots that just come into a channel to troll.
11:23.39dick_turpinI'm not a Troll am I?
11:23.50wethrinibot hate dick_turpin
11:23.55wethrinI don't know - are you?
11:24.04dick_turpinwethrin: Oi stop that
11:24.04wethrinhmm
11:24.07wethrin:)
11:24.07goibhniuibot love
11:24.09ibotLove suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things....  And now abideth faith, hope, ...
11:24.23wethrinibot soliloquy
11:26.12dick_turpingoibhniu: I'm still no wiser as to Dave Harris
11:27.53goibhniudick_turpin: let's just say Dave Harris is one of those special people who can convert wrong into right, and morsing does business with him
11:28.24wethrinDave Harris is not David Harris, who gave the Gllug talk
11:28.53dick_turpingoibhniu: He sounds like my kinda guy then?
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11:30.55dick_turpinwanna here another tosser fault call?
11:31.00wethrinGo on
11:33.26dick_turpinPC, working, no display, possible graphics card popped out. customer: "I need it fixing NOW! it's stopping me working!" OK take the side panel off and.. Customer "Ow no I'm not messing with it" Well you'll have to wait then! dick_turpin diplomatic as usual
11:37.27wethrin:)
11:40.46dick_turpinwethrin: You can smile young man, its a right day today I'm waiting for the 16 year old to go to dinner then I can have a good swear
11:45.52morsingBeer
11:46.22dick_turpinmorsing: Yes please, about 23 should do it
11:46.46morsingflips_and_rails!
11:46.51morsingibot Dave Harris
11:47.02ibothmm... dave harris is a lawyer from Harrogate
11:48.22morsingibot dick_turpin
11:48.23ibotit has been said that dick_turpin is a dirty old man
11:48.30morsingibot dick
11:48.31iboti heard dick is male genatalia, or Dessimat0r
11:50.21dick_turpinibot dick_turpin is a great guy with lots of understanding and patience
11:50.22ibot...but dick_turpin is already something else...
11:50.43dick_turpinibot: Just do as your told
11:51.14morsingSlayerXP: Helpful as ever...
11:54.31morsingibot wake wethrin
11:54.33ibotACTION throws a barrel-full of ice water on wethrin and shouts "GOOD MORNING!!!!"
11:55.57morsingSlayerXP: Tell Dylan to RTFM
12:02.49morsingHello?
12:04.27wethrinmorsing?
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12:07.54morsingJasperw!
13:57.37morsingHow do I tell mac-addresses on Solaris?
13:57.48wethrinDoes ifconfig not tell you?
13:57.56morsingNo - of course not
13:58.03morsingwethrin! You're awake...
13:59.47bilarhethtool?
14:00.14morsingnon-existant
14:00.15wethrinNot on Solaris
14:00.16wethrinIt'll tell you on bootup....
14:00.30morsingNice - good idea
14:00.38wethrinBreak into console, 'show net', type 'go' to resume
14:00.42bilarhbut that requires a reboot :P
14:00.59morsingwethrin: Uhmmm... No
14:01.03bilarhand breaking and then 'going' seems to always break things :P
14:01.06morsingbilarh: No it doesn't
14:01.12wethrinbilarh: Only sometimes :)
14:01.32bilarhmorsing: i was referring to the 'it'll tell you on bootup' idea
14:03.45morsingDes didn't know
14:05.48wethrinmorsing: How about 'arp' ?
14:07.09halimorsing: what version of solaris, ifconfig tells me the mac address on all boxes i have here (solaris 8 and 10)
14:07.27bilarhwethrin: there's no entry for the local host in the arp table :)
14:07.30morsingwethrin: arp, by chance, does actually tell me
14:07.35halilisted as "ether" which could confusing
14:07.36bilarhwtf
14:07.37bilarh:P
14:07.49bilarhwhy have you got the ethernet address of yourself in the arp table?
14:07.53morsinghali: Yes, now, but not twenty minutes ago, ifconfig does show me the MAC address
14:07.55wethrinhali: Solaris 9 doesn't tell me...
14:07.58bilarhwethrin: sorry, turns out i was wron g:)
14:08.40wethrinifconfig as root shows the MAC address, ifconfig as user doesn't
14:08.44wethrinWeird
14:08.58clive-hDifferent binaries
14:09.12clive-hThe root one is in /sbin/ifconfig
14:09.12wethrinNo...
14:09.19bilarhsame binaries
14:09.20wethrin# which ifconfig
14:09.20wethrin/usr/sbin/ifconfig
14:09.26wethrin$ which ifconfig
14:09.26wethrin/usr/sbin/ifconfig
14:09.51bilarhit's a bit like netstat -antup telling you which process owns a socket if run as root
14:09.56wethrinYou're going to have your own network address in the arp table...
14:10.07clive-hHmmm I don't have access to Solaris tight now
14:10.08bilarhwethrin: why would you need it?
14:10.10clive-hright
14:10.28bilarhwethrin: you're unlikely to send an ethernet frame to yourself over the network :)
14:10.41bilarhor have i lost my marbles?
14:11.03wethrinIt's an ethernet<->hostname mapping
14:11.04halifunny enough, the solaris 10 box i tried on is called "marble" :)
14:11.52bilarhwethrin: yes i know
14:11.59bilarhwethrin: but you'd never send yourself an ethernet frame
14:12.42haliwhy not?
14:12.51bilarhwell, there's not much point
14:12.59bilarhwhy would you want to do it?
14:13.10halilets say you a virtual machine that needs dhcp?
14:13.31bilarhaha?
14:13.53haliand your global machine is your dhcp server
14:14.02bilarhyep
14:14.10haliso hence you need a local arp table
14:14.24haliso the request is not sent out
14:14.34bilarhyes, for the virtual interfaces, not for yourself
14:14.47bilarhthe virtual machine may need to know the arp address of the 'server'
14:14.54bilarhbut the 'server' wouldn't need to know it's own arp address
14:14.59bilarhmac address, even
14:16.20halii can't see this discussion going anywhere
14:16.36bilarhso you conceed you are wrong? :P
14:16.54halino, since i have hard proof that it is required
14:16.56halisince it is in there
14:18.01halibut i think you are to (stubborn?) to change your mind now
14:18.01bilarhwell, at least linux doesn't need to know about it
14:18.01bilarhhttp://www.pastebin.ca/413514
14:18.27morsinghali: bilarh is right
14:18.50morsingSolaris might be stupid enough to have it there but other unix systems are better designed
14:19.25wethrinOpenBSD has it. I don't have any other Unix systems to hand
14:19.27wethrinWhat about AIX?
14:19.51bilarhif it is in there, it's duplication of information imo
14:20.11wethrinNothing necessarily wrong with that
14:20.13bilarhsolaris does have it, though
14:20.24bilarhno, not really i suppose :)
14:20.31wethrinMaybe the network stacks work in different ways
14:20.37morsingAIX doesn't - just tested
14:20.46morsingLinux certainly doesn't either
14:21.03bilarhif openbsd has it, probably the other bsd's have it too :)
14:21.03morsingSolaris sucks
14:21.21bilarhso it seems like a 2 - 6+ in favour of having it there :)
14:22.52cpufreakLinux is broken
14:22.55morsingbilarh: Huh?
14:23.42bilarhcpufreak: well, i've got a couple of linux boxes here saying they're not :)
14:24.20cpufreakthey're broken, they just don't realise it.
14:25.51morsingRight...
14:26.41bilarhmorsing: well, there must be at least 5 bsd derivatives + solaris = 6 :)
14:26.53haliok, so from the four os'es we've tested the two real ones have it and the toy ones don't :)
14:27.04bilarhwhatever :)
14:27.21bilarhi still maintain that it's not required for networking
14:27.26bilarheven when networking with yourself, as it were
14:27.26morsinghali: You suck
14:27.33halimorsing: even more than AIX?
14:28.31bilarhit may be useful if you want to globally spoof your mac-address i suppose
14:28.48bilarhbur provided you're not into pretending you're someone else, then it's not needed :)
14:35.04halihow about when receiving packets?
14:35.15halithe classic question "is this for me?"
14:35.30haliif you imagine a hubbed old wonky network
14:40.15haliwe could send an email to Bob Metcalfe and ask
14:44.21bilarhyou still don't need to know it actually
14:44.22bilarhwell, you do
14:44.24bilarhbut not in the arp table
14:44.39bilarhthat's handled by the ethernet card, or by the ethernet driver if the card is broken
14:44.53bilarhunless you're in promiscous mode
14:45.01bilarhin which case it should still be handled by the ethernet driver
15:29.01Leedsyou know, I really doubt they feel - or have - a need here for ads on the radio which make it clear that if you don't pay your car tax, a large evil computer which watches you 24/7 will steal your car and destroy it
15:29.26wethrinUmm....yes...
15:29.42Leedsthey're really pretty 1984-style ads
15:29.46wethrin:)
15:30.00Leedsthere's the carrot and the stick... and that's a very large pointed stick
15:30.37Leedsthey could open the ads with "you know, the money you pay for your car tax goes into maintaining and developing our road network" - or they could if it was true
15:31.24Leedsrather than just making it a pretty nasty and outright threat
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15:38.58goibhniuLeeds: you seem to be missing the point of government propoganda
15:39.37Leedsgoibhniu: I'm saying that from the point of a non-resident non-car-owner, it's a pretty nasty piece of propaganda
15:39.42Leedsand pretty blunt
15:39.57goibhniuLeeds: yes ... that's what it's there for
15:40.17bilarhleeds: totally agree with that
15:40.23bilarhpisses me off every time i hear it
15:40.43bilarhleave me, my liberties and my arp tables alone, thank you!
15:41.12Leedsthere's absolutely no suggestion whatsoever that you should pay for any reason other than the men in black shirts will come knocking in the night if you don't
15:41.28bilarhthere's a tv ad with the same message as well
15:41.35bilarhfilmed in dreary black and white
15:41.50LeedsI don't see TV ads - I stream radio and bittorrent TV :-)
15:41.54goibhniuLeeds: the idea is to keep you locked up in your bunker doing your groceries online and leaving IRL to the government
15:42.00bilarhyeah i know, that's why i let you know :P
15:42.26bilarhi can officially say i hate the government :)
15:42.42Leedsbilarh: well, nice knowing you...
15:42.54Leedsdo you have permission for that online protest action?
15:42.55goibhniubilarh: wanna set up a robo-comune in estonia?
15:43.09bilarhgoibhniu: does it involve sex with robots?
15:43.15bilarhgoibhniu: otherwise i'm out :)
15:43.25goibhniubilarh: obligatory
15:43.27bilarhleeds: hehe, exactly
15:43.40bilarhgoibhniu: excellent... count me, eh, in :)
15:43.52goibhniubilarh: morsing has also offered his services
15:44.07bilarhi knew he was a dirty bot!
15:44.35Leedsibot protest
15:44.46Leedsfor that matter...
15:44.48Leedsibot tony blair
15:44.50ibottony blair is probably nothing
15:45.06bilarhibot tony blair is a cunt, apparently :)
15:45.08ibotbilarh: please, watch your language.
15:45.13bilarhffs :)
15:45.17Leedsokay, who let Gordon have access to ibot? :-)
15:45.22bilarhhehe
15:45.40wethrin~gordon brown
15:46.45Leedsibot george bush
15:46.46iboti guess george bush is a kind, hard working man who leads the United States of America
15:47.02Leedsokay, who let Dick have access to ibot?
15:47.38Leedsibot george bush is also maybe not quite that
15:47.40ibotokay, Leeds
15:48.17bilarhibot tony blair
15:48.18iboti heard tony blair is nothing
15:48.32Leedsibot why?
15:48.33ibotBecause!
15:48.41bilarhibot tony blair is also a dcik-splat apparently
15:48.42ibotbilarh: okay
15:48.45bilarhibot tony blair
15:48.47ibotrumour has it, tony blair is nothing, or a dcik-splat apparently
15:48.56Leedsibot bilarh is also unable to spell dick
15:48.58ibotLeeds: please, watch your language.
15:48.59bilarhpower to the bilarh!
15:49.04wethrin~bilarh
15:49.06ibotextra, extra, read all about it, bilarh is probably making a fool of himself, as usual, or mad, or a java monkey and abuses log4j, or not a cool dude,  or a cool dude, apparently
15:49.08Leedsibot there's nothing dirty about dick
15:49.12cpufreakhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFqQOlYE4EE
15:50.23bilarhmental!
15:52.03halisaw that on the bbc news this morning, tfl is demanding the police investigate it
15:52.33wethrinBut they can't prosecute, apparently, because it's > 6 months old
15:52.35bilarhleave the guy alone
15:53.32haliwell, if it was ilegal i think they should prosecute
15:53.38halia thug is still athug
15:53.43bilarhfascist! :)
15:53.48haliyes i know
15:53.58bilarhdid you know it's illegal to be drunk in a public place? :)
15:54.04haliyoungsters today lack all respect for the law
15:54.16halidrinking in public is, not sure about being drunk?
15:54.17bilarhyou're only 26 yourself
15:54.22hali25!
15:54.32bilarhthere you go, even worse than i thought! :)
15:54.39bilarhyou've betrayed your generation
15:54.39wethrinonly in some public places...
15:54.45haliand you are 28 and still seem to lack respect for the law
15:54.53halii bet you drink and drive
15:54.58bilarhyou should be out there "breaking the law, breaking the law" :)
15:55.07bilarhnot really, no
15:55.13bilarhwell, max one pint
15:55.34bilarhwhich, with my considerable body mass, will not put me over the drink drive limit :)
15:56.12halispeaking of beer, i quite enjoyed that meal in the beefeater the other day
15:56.16haligreat choice in resturants
15:56.20wethrinmm....beef
15:56.23bilarhbeefeater?
15:56.26bilarhwas that the pub we went to?
15:56.30halibilarh: yes
15:56.35bilarhah yeah, it was cool
15:57.33halithe gamon was perhaps a bit salty but i still liked it (since it was meat anyway)
15:57.51haliwe should try smolenskys some day
15:58.00bilarhwhen i get a bonus, maybe :P
15:58.03halion the strand
15:58.07haliit's not expensive
15:58.18halinot more expensive than beefeater
15:58.20bilarhyou seem to have forgotten that i'm married and thus not in control of my own finances any more :(
15:58.37haliand spend a significant amount on parts for your car :)
15:58.56bilarhactually, this month i have only spent the grand total  of 200
15:59.01bilarhthe month before it was the same :)
15:59.05bilarhso nerrr :)
15:59.07wethrinincluding rent / mortgage?
15:59.19halii'm probably on about 800 pm for food and drinks
15:59.31haliwith emphasis on drinks :P
15:59.32bilarhi don't pay rent for my car, luckily :)
15:59.40wethrinDRINK!
15:59.50haliDRRRINK!
15:59.56wethrinARSE!
15:59.58bilarhshocking waste... you know you could sit indoors all the time and put it all into a ftse tracker, no?
16:00.12wethrinSpending it on drink is more fun
16:00.18halii would never use a bookie service
16:02.23haliand besides, i quite enjoy socialising with people (usually discussing VMS and how anon pages are allocated in MPE/ix)
16:02.42Leedshmm... past midnight
16:02.57dick_turpinLeeds: Go to bed
16:03.32Leedswhy?
16:05.21bilarhdon't need to use a bookie service, just get buy some shares in a fund through your bank :)
16:05.29bilarhleeds: don't go to bed, entertain us instead
16:06.16Leedswhy?
16:07.19bilarhbecause!
16:07.51Leedsfind me work and I'll entertain you!
16:08.04bilarhi thought you had a job already
16:08.13Leedsuh, no
16:08.14bilarhdance a dance for us :)
16:08.18bilarhreally?
16:08.25halibilarh: thats not really playing on the ftse tracker is it, thats just a normal investment
16:08.27bilarhi thought you worked for a company in HK?
16:08.47LeedsI did - until August
16:09.00bilarhhali: i didn't say "play the ftse", i said put it in a ftse tracker :)
16:09.08bilarhleeds: what the one just gone or the one coming up?
16:09.23Leedsthere was one coming up... it came and went
16:09.28z00daxthese days you really want either the .cn or .br markets
16:09.29bilarhoh right
16:09.34z00daxthats where the money is
16:09.37wethrinz00dax!
16:09.39bilarhleeds: that's like half a year :-\
16:09.40z00daxwethrin: !
16:09.45bilarhzoodax: where's br?
16:09.47bilarhbrazil?
16:09.48wethrinBrazil
16:10.15bilarhtoo many hot women in brazil for my liking, i'm afraid
16:10.19Leedsbilarh: yes, I'm painfully aware of that
16:10.31bilarhleeds: :(
16:10.36haliplenty of jobs in london though
16:10.48z00daxi need to snapshot this - not often are these two terms used together 'too many' and 'hot women'
16:11.03bilarhleeds: have you considered turning to hard drugs and prostitution? :(
16:11.31Leedsthe latter, yes..
16:11.47z00daxo^O
16:11.52bilarhi've often thought of turning into a gigolo
16:11.57haliaren't HK drug laws quite restrictive and the punishment is like 5000 years in prison?
16:12.02z00daxdoes pimping gw280 count ?
16:12.08bilarhi was going to say a dildo at first, but then i realised some people probably thinks i'm one already :)
16:12.47LeedsI wouldn't mess with drugs anywhere, but they're pretty harsh here, yeah
16:13.36gw280z00dax: what?
16:13.38dick_turpinLeeds: Have you not gone to bed yet?
16:14.49Leedsno, but you've apparently just split :-P
16:14.50bilarhhehe :P
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16:15.35z00daxgw280: you'd make a pretty pimp
16:15.36gw280z00dax: I don't want to know.
16:15.36wethringw280 supplementing his student income by becoming a rent boy?
16:15.37gw280...
16:15.39z00daxlooks like we lost dick_turpin in that split
16:15.55gw280ZOMGWTFBBQ PROFIT
16:16.17bilarhzoodax: that's a crazy idea, you don't want to do that
16:16.28z00daxi might loose my eyesight if i dont
16:16.30gw280z00dax: lol light
16:16.33bilarhzoodax: you'll probably be mugged or arrested for being under 25 by the fascist cops
16:16.39z00daxmy right eye is exceptionally red today
16:16.40Leedsbilarh: ISTR seeing a year or two back someone making a huge creme egg by draining the contents of lots of normal ones
16:16.53z00daxand i've been changing monitors and taking breaks from the machines today
16:17.17z00daxgw280: most people seemed to miss that :/
16:17.37bilarhleeds: hehe, cool :)
16:19.09bilarhmm, creme eggs are legendary
16:23.39Leedsmmm... vindaloo
16:23.51Leedsoh, sorry, voodoo... I like the idea of a vindaloo doll :-)
16:24.04wethrinNo Leeds! You shall not tempt me into having a curry on my way home!
16:25.19halimmm... some curry would be nice
16:25.42z00daxcurry ++
16:25.48haliwith a side of saag alou
16:26.00z00daxi need to really make an effort and find a moderately decent curry place close to where i live
16:26.04wethrinDAMN YOU ALL!
16:26.25Leedsmmm... saag aloo
16:26.31bilarhwethrin: what's your favourite curry place, then?
16:26.32z00daxwethrin: with a kingfisher alongside
16:26.36halii quite like preem on brick lane, quite light food ... not to oily or to much of that gee
16:26.57halired fort in soho is alright but a bit to pricey
16:27.01wethrinbilarh: I tend mostly to go to the one in Durham that's on my way home
16:27.02z00daxgee == heart attack stuff
16:27.20wethrinz00dax: Yes, but tasty
16:27.29wethrinIt's just butter with extra fat added, isn't it?
16:27.35halithe swedish chef in preem is all against gee
16:28.13Leedsswedish chef?
16:28.13wethrinbilarh: Down in London, I've liked the Gaylord and Malabar Junction (for tasty food)
16:28.13wethrinLords is quite nice for standard curry-fare
16:28.16wethrinAlthough they seem to have put the prices up
16:28.18z00daxwethrin: umm no
16:28.19bilarhthe swedish chef?
16:28.22Leedsbork bork bork!
16:28.25z00daxwethrin: do you want to know what it is ? ghee ?
16:28.55bilarhleeds: hehe
16:28.58wethrinWikipedia says clarified butter
16:29.50z00daxwell, i dont know what clarigied butter is - but ghee is essentially a massive load of white butter skimmed off the top of milk, put into a big pot and heated till the snf + sff settle down
16:30.23wethrinIndeed
16:30.50wethrin"Clarified butter is butter that has been rendered to separate the milk solids and water from the butter fat"
16:30.54z00daxso what you get left behind is mostly the fats and cholesterol
16:31.04bilarhsounds nice :)
16:31.32Leedsbut is it 'good' cholesterol or 'bad' cholesterol?
16:31.40z00daxright, the milk processing industry tends to use snf = solids non fat, and sff - solids fatty fodder to refer to those bits
16:31.52bilarhit's the kind of stuff that jumps at your heart from dark alleys
16:31.53z00daxLeeds: mostly the bad kinds
16:32.22wethrinLeeds: If it's from cow milk, it's 'good'. From veggies, it's 'bad'
16:32.25wethrinApparently :)
16:32.46bilarhwethrin: phew, i'm glad you cleared that out :P
16:32.51Leedsyou can get non-diary ghee?
16:32.59Leedsuh, dairy
16:33.36wethrinAccording to Wikipedia, yes
16:34.37z00daxits based off hydrogenated veggie oils
16:34.40z00dax(sp)
16:38.58goibhniuzabbix or nagios? ... and I'd like to set off alerts when certain things appear in log files ... tricky?
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16:39.34z00daxgoibhniu: zenoss
16:39.45wethrinahoy
16:39.59wethrinz00dax: Need ideas for talks for next Gllug!
16:40.27z00daxwethrin: kernel elevator design logic in the 2.6.x kernel tree
16:40.30goibhniuz00dax: SEXY! cheers
16:40.34antiphaseGoat sex
16:40.58wethrinUm. Right...
16:41.17z00daxwethrin: are the streamline guys going to stick with a mid week meeting ?
16:41.24wethrinI suspect so, yes
16:41.42wethrinWe might be able to get SlayerXP to do his talk about spam filtering
16:41.43z00daxso should we keep them as tentative, and just have them for the evening when they are ready and push on for a 21st Apr ( if possible ) meet
16:42.01wethrinYeah. Looks like I might be in Greece the week before the meeting
16:42.40z00daxhttp://www.linuxgfx.co.uk/karoshi/mambo/dev/
16:42.58z00daxhave we ever asked these people about a potential talk ?
16:43.07z00daxthey are not really local, but perhaps they can make a Sat ?
16:43.17z00daxalso, we need a wiki to plan stuff of this nature :/
16:43.41wethrinNo - that's what mailing lists are for..
16:43.45wethrinWhere are they based?
16:44.08z00daxthe problem with mailing lists is - its hard to find out if someone spoke to a project about a potential talk 8 months back
16:44.14z00daxand what the response was from them
16:44.37z00daxwethrin: karoshi.org.uk is dover based iirc
16:44.58z00daxit would be nice to get someone in to talk about linux in education
16:45.00wethrinIt might be useful to get Jason to set up some @gllug.org.uk email addresses, so it looks a little more 'official'
16:45.14wethrinIndeed. Didn't Roger Whittaker give a talk about that not too long ago?
16:45.57morsingBeer
16:46.46wethrinz00dax: I could get someone in to talk about XML stuff (he's on various XML committees), and possibly see if a guy from AMD can come and talk about virtualisation in processors
16:47.01z00daxwethrin: no clue, looking at mailing list and searching for education / academic / school / university brings up no real context
16:47.01wethrinAlthough the contact in AMD is more a marketing guy, he knows a bit of technie stuff
16:47.41z00daxwethrin: that might work, but one or the other, it might get a bit top heavy otherwise
16:47.54z00daxpus, we've had a lot of people talk about virt stuff
16:47.59wethrinMaybe get someone from Cambridge to talk about Xen?
16:48.00wethrinHmmm
16:48.09wethrinTrue. It is the 'new cool thing'
16:48.14z00daxwe had the novel guys in talking about Xen not long back
16:48.31z00daxand richard did some more virt stuff last weekend
16:49.22wethrinMm....best wait, then
16:49.47z00daxkeithlard__: can come and talk about ruby :)
16:49.55wethrinOh good!
16:50.07wethrinCould have a more programming-oriented one
16:50.19z00daxkeithlard_:
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17:06.41Leedsbah, zope
17:19.07goibhniuLeeds: zope loves you
17:27.34z00daxi did think you might like it
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18:35.18trousers_Gunde!
18:35.32Gundehi trousers (-:
18:41.39haliwethrin: how about a file system talk? lots of fun stuff happening there now, ext4, ocfs2 .. vxfs being "free"
18:48.03cpufreakz7
18:50.12boudiccasreiserfs
18:52.37z00daxGunde: !
18:52.48z00daxboudiccas: umm no, reiserfs no no no
18:53.53halii only use reiserfs for squid caches'
18:55.36clive-hvxfs is free ?
18:56.02trousers_afs :)
18:56.32clive-hvxfs is costly I thought
18:56.46haliclive-h: vertias foundation suite basic is free, up to four volumes/file systems
18:57.00halienough for a small sybase server
18:57.08halinice to have when one wants direct io
18:57.11clive-hOh I must have missed that development
18:57.25haliit's sweet
18:57.43clive-hYeah always did direct IO for Oracle dbs
19:34.44wethrinhali: Excellent idea!
19:35.12wethrinhali: Can those volumes be spread over multiple disks?
19:37.35haliwethrin: yes
19:37.46wethrinNice
19:38.07wethrinCould probably get someone to talk about GFS (Global, not Google)
19:47.52morsingBeer
19:48.00morsingGPFS
19:48.03wethrinBeer FS?
19:48.32morsingwethrin: Where's Slayer?
19:49.03wethrinDon't know
19:49.08morsingAnyway, question: What does "Status in which you have signed the form" mean?
19:49.24wethrinmorsing: NFI - context?
19:49.27morsingGPFS!
19:49.35wethrinGPFS?
19:49.46morsingwethrin: Form from T&R I have to sign
19:49.53wethrinT&R?
19:50.06morsinghttp://www-03.ibm.com/systems/clusters/software/gpfs.html
19:50.10wethrinPresumably "Employee", "Employer", "Contractor", etc.?
19:50.12morsingTax & Revenue
19:50.17morsingSo, Director?
19:50.27morsingBut it's a title then?
19:50.52wethrinPossibly, but I'm not sure
19:51.00wethrinPhone them
19:51.00morsingMmm... Pizza
19:51.04wethrinI had curry
19:51.11morsingMy accountant will know
19:51.13wethrinYeah
19:51.21wethrinSo....do you know anyone who could talk about GPFS?
19:51.27morsingIBM?
19:51.33wethrinYes
19:51.36wethrinAnyone?
19:51.43wethrinSpecific - got any contexts in IBM?
19:51.48morsingI appoint SlayerXP
19:51.55morsingNo
19:52.07morsingJust thought it would be interesting
19:52.17wethrinI could be
19:54.57morsingI can't figure these forms out :(
19:58.06wethrinTax doesn't have to be taxing!
20:00.30morsingwethrin: I'm sure I've done this right
20:00.34morsingWrong I mean
20:00.43morsingwethrin: Beer?
20:01.45wethrinwhen?
20:03.11morsingNow
20:03.14morsingAnd pizza
20:03.22morsing20:58  * wethrin wonders what to do for the rest of the evening
20:04.21morsingwethrin: How do you solve a neighbour dispute without weapons?
20:05.21morsingibot wake wethrin
20:05.33ibotACTION throws a barrel-full of ice water on wethrin and shouts "GOOD MORNING!!!!"
20:05.56wethrinThrough the courts
20:06.23morsingHmm...
20:06.30halihow big of a problem?
20:06.56morsinghali: They're just hassling me and even friends about parking outside my house
20:08.19wethrinDon't you have a driveway?
20:08.36morsingwethrin: Yes, but can only fit two cars on there
20:08.43wethrinGarage?
20:08.58wethrinAs long as you're parking in front of your own house, and not blocking their driveway, you should be okay
20:09.17morsingIndeed but can't easily move in and out of it with cars on the driveway
20:09.32morsingwethrin: They don't care, they just moan
20:09.43wethrinYeah, so you have your regular cars on the driveway, and your special occasion car in the garage
20:09.45morsingThey even went after TwoSheds last time he was here
20:09.55morsingwethrin: Sometimes...
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20:10.05wethrinBah. As long as he wasn't blocking them....
20:10.09morsingclive-h!
20:10.23morsingwethrin: They're idiots
20:10.31wethrinProfessional whingers?
20:10.34clive-hHi morsing
20:10.39wethrin30-something, two young kids?
20:11.40morsingShe looks like 40s, him more like 50s and they have two dogs and two very young kids (5-7?)
20:13.50wethrinAhhha
20:13.56wethrinProfessional whiners, then
20:14.03wethrinWON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN
20:14.16morsingwethrin: They're just being so stupid
20:15.41wethrinThey have hedges round the outside of their house too?
20:15.41morsingFence
20:15.42wethrinoh
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20:31.19z00daxdamnsplit
20:31.23morsingz00dax: Splits are fun
20:31.23z00daxdepends on who and what is being split
20:31.26wethrinDavid Harris!
20:31.26morsingNot much better. First mention is your meeting invite
20:32.06z00daxno harris seems to have posted since 31/07/2005
20:32.06wethrinheh
20:32.06morsingz00dax: Was that particular harris from Harrogate?
20:33.08morsingwethrin: On Saturday you said he was from Harrogate
20:34.04wethrinNo I didn't
20:34.20z00daxmorsing: you missed the part where i said 'no'
20:35.38morsingz00dax: But the harris that posted on  31/07/2005 was?
20:36.06z00daxi didnt say there was one
20:36.20morsingYou implied it! (strongly)
20:36.22z00daxwe should just all move to sanskrit
20:36.57z00daxand do away with such ambiguity
20:37.35wethrinThat could have just been when his archives stopped/started
20:37.46wethrinOh - it's Gllug's 10th year come this September
20:37.54z00daxwethrin: yes
20:38.00z00daxis when I joined the list
20:38.24z00daxi suppose gmane.org might have a slightly longer - directly searchable stock
20:38.31z00daxas might google
20:39.20wethrinAnd the mailman archives...
20:39.28z00daxhahaha
20:39.32z00dax"Geeklawyer is currently writing: “Guantanamo Bay - the musical comedy”
20:39.45z00daxmorsing:  http://blog.geeklawyer.org/about-geeklawyer/
20:40.16wethrin:)
20:43.37wethrinRight.....September 1st 1997 there was the first announcement of a Gllug meeting
20:43.49wethrinMeeting took place on September 13th 1997
20:44.42wethrinHow endian-neutral is ext3?
20:45.31haliit is completly neutral
20:46.29wethrinOh good
20:46.38haliit at least is ment to be, i've never tried it except for using a usb stick on both pc and sparc
20:47.13clive-hBoth are big-endian
20:47.50halix86 is little-endian
20:48.01wethrinx86 is little
20:48.06clive-hOh yeah
21:07.25halimost sparcs are pretty boring these days
21:07.33halit1 is fun and the high end usIV+ is ok
21:07.47halithe rest is to slow to be taken seriously
21:08.15haliwe have shedloads of v480s scheduled to be replaced by x86_64 kit
21:08.55wethrinI like the T1
21:09.07wethrinv480s? Are they the desktop ones?
21:09.33hali5U quad socket servers
21:10.08wethrinHmm.....
21:10.13wethrinWith mounting kits?
21:10.52haliwell yes, but im not sure if we are selling/giving away anything... some of it will be used for internal dev since most our stupid clients use sparcs
21:11.05halii can keep my eyes open
21:28.19wethrinCool :)
21:32.43clive-hFree sparcs would be cool
21:32.53clive-hOr even cheap ones
21:33.59wethrinI wonder if Tushar will still have any A1000s left
21:34.19clive-hAmigas?
21:34.24wethrinDisk arrays
21:34.37clive-hahhhh
21:34.43clive-hNice kit
21:34.56wethrinYarr
21:36.21wethrinGah. Taking down these racks when I move out is going to be hassle
21:36.41clive-hHow many at home?
21:36.54wethrinI've got 2 racks here; 1's full
21:37.03wethrinThe other, admittedly, is empty
21:37.11clive-hLol
21:37.20z00daxhow much of noise do you generate there?
21:37.28z00daxor do you just not run your machines
21:37.35wethrinOnly about half the machines are on
21:37.40wethrinAnd it's not too bad with the door closer
21:37.43wethrin*closed
21:37.52z00daxi have a fair few machines here- and the one reason i shy away from using rack mount kit is that its so bloody loud
21:37.58wethrinIf the door's open, you can hear the room when you come in :)
21:38.05wethrinMost of the stuff's on shelves
21:38.15z00daxi can live with the electric bill - since the machines are doing something, i can even dedicate the one bedroom to the machines as the machine room - but i do not like the noise
21:38.47wethrinClose the door :)
21:38.59z00daxyou mean to go sit outside the house ?
21:39.30z00daxthe door to the  machine room is closed, the door to the upstairs stairway is closed as well. i can still feel / hear the machines - and only 7 are on at the moment
21:39.50z00daxthat does include a openpower 720 and a sun v20z which contribute about 80% of the noise
21:40.07wethrinAhh
21:40.11wethrinMy E4k isn't on
21:40.38z00daxyou are not making it feel welcome
21:40.54clive-hSounds like a farm to build Centos on
21:41.00wethrinGentoo? :)
21:41.09wethrinWell....it'd be nice if it had more memory
21:41.34wethrinHas anyone played with the iSCSI initiator for Linux?
21:41.38z00daxclive-h: the sun and ibm machines are both doing just that - building centos-5 stuff on
21:41.39clive-hz00dax is a centos person
21:42.33antiphaseI thought about trying iSCSI with Linux, but it had the distinct air of being a partial implementation of a very complicated (possibly over-complicated) problem
21:42.43antiphaseAnd alpha code
21:42.57wethrinIt looks slightly more mature now
21:43.06wethrinThe iscsitarget.sourceforge.net one, anyway
21:43.13z00daxi use the iscsi init in centos-4.4 and its been working ok - as has the iet iscsi -target stuff
21:43.28z00daxwethrin: thats not the initiator :)
21:43.31wethrinUrgh. I really meant the target
21:43.40wethrinduhh
21:44.02z00daxhttp://www.karan.org/mock/iscsitarget-0.4.12-4.el4.kb.src.rpm
21:44.29wethrinIs it particularly memory-hungry?
21:44.32z00daxis the one that i am using - its dated, yes i know - but its been working fine for me, in my role - also using the newer ones require you to get a good match between the iscsi code and the kernel it was built for
21:44.35wethrinto work properly, that is
21:45.18z00daxi have gfs running on it - and it hosts my home file server of 2x200gb's and 2x500 gb's and 3x 120gb's
21:45.39z00daxruns off an amd 3200xp athlon with 256megs of ram
21:46.16clive-hI keep meaning to look at gfS
21:49.28z00daxwait for c5, lots of changes and updates including conga and clusterlvm
21:49.53clive-hMmmm
21:50.10clive-hI might go for that
21:51.26z00daxclive-h: is there a decent curry place around here ?
21:51.47clive-hin lb bexley area?
21:52.06clive-hthere's a few
21:52.07z00daxja
21:52.28wethrinI'm install Debian
21:52.31wethrinon Sparc
21:52.42z00daxinspite of me having lived here for about 5 years + now, I've not really ever had anything local for the fear of wanting to leave the area then
21:52.43clive-hthe one in my road is ok
21:53.11z00daxclive-h: the one on the left as you head in towards the roundabout in front of M ?
21:53.14clive-hi have a u5 that runs debian
21:53.28z00daxwethrin: potato ?
21:53.39wethrinz00dax: Nah. 3.1r5. Which I presume is etch
21:53.42wethrinErr, sarge
21:53.45wethrinWhatever.
21:54.12clive-hBefore the retail park
21:54.22antiphaseIs Debian stale new enough to support SPARC these days? :P
21:54.30clive-hThere's a few actually
21:54.37wethrinantiphase: I'm not sure. It might be running it in 32-bit mode :)
22:17.11z00daxsparc in 32bit mode ?
22:18.19z00daxwow, that really would go back a bloody long time
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22:18.20popeyevening everyone
22:18.20popeyhas caroline / secretlondon been around tonight?
22:18.22clive-hsun4u's like ultra1s
22:18.25wethrinShe hasn't been on IRC for ages
22:18.31popeyoh, ok
22:18.38popeyi thought she popped in here now and then
22:18.43z00daxibot: secretlondon
22:18.44ibot[secretlondon] probably in London, and otherwise a secret
22:18.45wethrin~seen secretlondon
22:19.22ibotsecretlondon <n=secretlo@wikipedia/secretlondon> was last seen on IRC in channel #gllug, 43d 10h 1m 16s ago, saying: 'have fun!'.
22:19.23z00daxhumm
22:19.24popeyshe has limited net access AIUI
22:19.24clive-hEverything since has been 64 bit
22:19.24popeyok, nvm :(
22:19.24wethrinpopey: She's been posting quite a bit to LJ
22:19.24popeyyes
22:19.24popeymost recent one alarms me :(
22:19.25wethrinPosted in the last hour or so?
22:19.31popey10:27pm
22:23.40wethrinHmm
22:23.46wethrinWhy does it alarm you?
22:26.16clive-hIf it alarms you enough to fear for safety/life I'd suggest calling 999
22:26.45clive-hThat's certainly what I'd do
22:30.31wethrinRight....WTF does Debian do after mounting the root filesystem? It decides to confuse the serial consoel after that
22:30.32clive-hsparcs?
22:30.32wethrinyeah
22:30.38clive-hIndeed it does
22:31.03wethrinIt's a bit rubbish
22:31.16clive-hIt's the crap stuff it does
22:31.32wethrinBut.....this is for hardware that's *supposed* to be run off serial console!
22:31.40wethrinAre all developers morons?
22:31.46clive-hOutputting X to the serial conole
22:32.29wethrinYes, but it forced me to do a hard reset on the terminal
22:32.30clive-hI think you need to make it run at level 3
22:32.33wethrinWhich ANNOYS ME
22:32.40wethrinThis is just after installation
22:33.13clive-hI'm not a debian person
22:34.07wethrinI don't regard myself as one. But I apparently now have 3 Debian machines. Out of 3 Linux machines.
22:34.18wethrinNaughty me
22:34.42clive-hThat sounds unlucky or something
22:34.55wethrinIt is.
22:35.06wethrinBut it's a bit late to change the fileserver now
22:35.18wethrinAnd I'm not sure how well Slackware works on Sparc
22:35.51clive-hSlackware wouldn't be my choice either
22:36.03wethrinWhat's your poison of choice?
22:36.40clive-hFedora at home/RHEL/Centos for work
22:37.16clive-hSolaris on sparc/OS X on PPC/macs
22:38.33wethrinWhy Fedora? Used to RedHat historically? Or because it does something better?
22:38.58clive-hHistorically I did SysV
22:39.31wethrinmmm...
22:39.46clive-hOn linux I went SLS->Slackware-.Redhat
22:40.02wethrinAnd stuck with it?
22:40.25clive-hafter Slackware didn't migrate to ELF
22:40.44wethrinIt has done now
22:40.47clive-hin a sane timeframe
22:40.50clive-hYes
22:41.01wethrinWasn't that about the time Pat Volkerding was rather ill?
22:41.11clive-hI've been running Linux since 1992
22:42.14wethrinYes, well, you're old :-P
22:42.22clive-hI am
22:43.13clive-hRedhat skills are cool in London
22:44.14wethrinI've always favoured the general approach - if you know enough about lots of things, then specifics can always be hunted down in a manual
22:44.46clive-hI've adminned many many unix variants
22:44.58wethrinindeed
22:45.13clive-hI started on SVR2.1
22:46.31wethrinThat's, what, early 80s?
22:46.40clive-hI was quite a dab hand at booting from a mini-root that had no ls
22:47.07wethrintoggling switches?
22:47.10clive-hmid late 80s
22:47.18wethrinNot quite that old, then
22:47.31gw280lalala
22:47.32clive-hICL DRS/NX 400s
22:47.50clive-h68K boxes
22:50.07clive-hI'm 50 I've worked in IT for a while
22:50.36wethrinSeen it all before :)
22:51.13wethrinUrgh. It's too hot in this room
22:51.19clive-hDone mainframe,supermincomputer stuff before unix
22:58.22popeywethrin: sorry, was mailing, it alarms me that someone would be quite so nasty to her
22:58.32wethrinAhhh....yes
22:58.35popeythe comment to her previous blog post
22:58.47popeysomewhat cowardly to anonymously post like that
22:59.25wethrinNot necessarily - one would need to have an LJ account to not post anonymously. Unless you also mean not signing off...
22:59.33popeywell, yes
22:59.46z00daxwhats her lj username ?
22:59.50z00daxas in whats the blog url
22:59.58wethrinsecretlondon
23:00.08popeyhttp://secretlondon.livejournal.com/158846.html and the next post
23:05.41wethrinWhat was the joke she took objection to?
23:06.05gw280MOO
23:07.03wethrinGEORGE!
23:07.07gw280WETHRIN
23:07.33clive-hI think offending women is out of order#
23:08.59wethrinExcept gw280
23:08.59popeywethrin: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2007-March/003698.html
23:09.08gw280I'm offending?
23:09.18popeyit was partly the joke, partly the reaction from everyone else
23:11.29wethrinIs that particularly offensive?
23:12.04gw280I'm not offensive
23:12.05gw280you bastards.
23:12.07gw280I HATE YOU ALL
23:12.13wethrinI've seen that joke going round loads of times
23:12.37popeyare you female wethrin ?
23:13.29gw280wethrin's definitely a girl
23:13.31wethrinIndeed :)
23:13.41wethringw280: Careful! I've got handbags!
23:13.49popey\o/ http://handbag.popey.com/
23:13.53popeybet mines nicer
23:14.16wethrinYes it is. Will it fit a couple of bricks in there for when swinging it at gw280 ?
23:14.21popeyhaha
23:14.38gw280wethrin: and I have rifles
23:16.09wethrinAhh....going for fighting at long-range. Wimp.
23:16.33gw280I is a wimp?
23:16.43gw280I'm having a pizza party tomorrow :D
23:41.56wethringw280: Hurrah!
23:42.09gw280wethrin: indeed

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