IRC log for #gllug on 20070330

00:00.12trousers_I'll ring them up later.
00:00.19z00daxandi also might take my G5 to work and use it there
00:00.28z00daxs|andi|and i|
00:03.25z00daxwould still leave me with a lot of horsepower
00:03.51z00daxand the Alpha and Sparc need something doing to them as well
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04:20.54Leeds"HP, Duke University, The University of Minnesota, and Qwaq, Inc. have jointly announced the formation of The Croquet Consortium, Inc., a 501(3)c non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting the continued development and widespread adoption of open source Croquet technologies for use in education, research, and industry. The launch of The Croquet Consortium coincides with the Consortium’s release the open source Croquet Software Developer’s Kit 1.0 -
04:20.55Leeds- as free software under the Croquet Open Source License."
04:21.24Leedsreally impressive how a paragraph that long can contain absolutely no meaningful content whatsoever
04:24.19morsingLeeds!
04:24.42Leedsno, gym time!
04:24.48morsingBeer
04:25.02Leedsno beer!
04:25.28LeedsI am currently not drinking booze... and I'm going to the gym - now.
04:25.33morsingNice
05:30.28morsingSausages
05:44.49Leedsno, tomato soup and muffins
05:45.20morsingLeeds!
06:29.32morsingLeeds?
06:33.56morsingz00dax?
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06:55.41morsingchris!
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07:24.37morsingSlayerXP!
07:25.00SlayerXPyo
07:26.07morsingBreakfast?
07:27.33SlayerXPi tend to have breakfast at about lunchtime
07:28.14morsingNice
07:28.17morsingHaggis?
07:28.22morsingOr beer?
07:31.06SlayerXPit varies
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08:03.56morsinggoibhniu!
08:08.48goibhniumorsing!
08:19.22morsingCheck it!
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08:23.05morsingPussInBoots!
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08:46.32mumperermoaning :) !
08:47.20goibhniumumperer?
08:47.47mumpererYesseree goibhnui
08:47.50goibhniuis ubuntu getting you down again?
08:48.23morsingmumperer!
08:48.32mumperergoibhnui Nah - luv it to death!
08:48.33morsingUbuntu sucks
08:48.42morsingmumperer: Can you fix mine?
08:49.10mumpererWell yeah - have you got an American screwdriver
08:49.44morsingNice
08:50.10antiphaseMaybe I ought to give AIX a go if it's that much easier than Ubuntu
08:50.24mumpererIt could be that I don't know how stuffed I am - but it feels good ...
08:51.18mumpererNot good enough to stop me hankering after installing Debian though
08:51.33morsingantiphase: It is
08:53.10mumpererEr - I just had to elave the screen ti inspect our cat's invasion of the airing cupboard - aaaah!
08:54.51mumpererWhilst that shows how much my typing's gone to pot, I have a PC and will not have a laptop because my hand's too kernackered ...
08:55.28mumpererSo - Ubuntu nice, so far. OK
08:58.41haliAIX is easier at basic admin tasks, thats why it's so popular with certain types of people
08:58.53haliit comes with a nice GUI tool to do most things
08:59.01halismit, or smitty if you run it in text mode
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09:02.46antiphaseSo basically it's Windows then
09:03.12morsingJosefAssad!
09:03.18morsinghali: Sausages
09:06.59JosefAssadTrillian!
09:16.02halimorsing: i've had enough of those, im moving to bacon
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09:23.45morsingchr1s!
09:34.32JosefAssadVirginia!
09:58.35wethrinarr
10:01.02morsingwethrin!
10:01.10wethrinhi
10:03.36morsingHow are you?
10:10.41wethrinOkay
10:10.55morsingwethrin: Well done.
10:11.05morsingBeing ok has always been high on my list
10:11.15wethrinGood!
10:36.24morsingBeer
10:36.26bilarhis log4j generally quite 'heavy' on writes?
10:36.30morsingNo
10:36.32morsingOr yes
10:36.34morsingDepending
10:36.39morsingDon't really know
10:36.49morsingfilemon?
10:36.57bilarhok, so what you're saying is that "yes, it may be, or it may not be" :P
10:37.06halilog4j is quite efficent, but it does sync() a lot
10:37.21bilarhit completely killed my app actually
10:37.32halimissconfigured appenders?
10:37.36bilarhabout 50 threads writing to the same log file
10:37.44bilarhand i guess the writes have to be serialized as well :)
10:38.00halihm, the threads shoudln't access the file?
10:38.18bilarhdon't they have their own log4j instance?
10:38.20halithey should call the log4j method to write to the file and the log4j thread should do the writing?
10:38.26bilarhoh right
10:38.34halii think it's serialized per default
10:38.55bilarhmaybe it is misconfigured then.. it seemed that it was waiting for the writes to complete
10:39.00halii remember it was dog slow when using a jdbc appender
10:39.05bilarhmind, i was writing about 5000 lines per second :P
10:39.38bilarhi'm going to avoid log4j in the future, i think
10:39.56halilog4j is quite defacto standard in most web and app containers... so it's hard to avoid
10:39.59bilarhor at least be careful with it :)
10:52.00morsingNice
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11:08.16morsingdick_turpin!
11:08.45dick_turpinmorsing!
11:12.26morsingMmm... Laura
11:13.52goibhniumorsing: Palmer?
11:14.02dick_turpinCroft?
11:14.18morsingLapsley - The payslip girl...
11:14.25morsingLaura Croft? What?
11:14.47dick_turpinOops isnt it Lara?
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11:27.06morsingcatalyst!
11:27.19catalystmorsing! :)
11:29.35morsingcatalyst: Slow responding today?
11:31.03catalystattempting to complete some coursework before I go home for the weekend
11:31.45morsingNice. Got work yet?
11:34.21catalystwork? :)
11:34.44morsingThought you were setting up a company?
11:40.20morsingibot wake catalyst
11:40.29ibotACTION throws a barrel-full of ice water on catalyst and shouts "GOOD MORNING!!!!"
11:40.55catalystyes, yes I am
11:41.09catalystbut I've got loads of uni work to do before I can concentrate on that full time
11:54.10morsingCheck it!
12:01.00morsingAre mysql database name case sensitive?
12:04.25morsingHello?
12:04.28morsingantiphase?
12:12.41antiphaseWhy would you ever need to know that? o_O
12:12.48antiphaseLower case is da bomb
12:13.01antiphaseCaps are for Microsoft luvverz
12:14.45antiphasehttp://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/identifier-case-sensitivity.html
12:14.49antiphaseGoogle wins again
12:30.21morsingWhat's Google?
12:30.41morsingantiphase: Don't worry, I won't be a lazy foreigner for much longer
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12:34.33morsingchr1s!
12:45.21gregjmysql is case insensitive by default
12:45.25gregjand it sux by default too
12:45.36gregjpostgresql requires vacuum process for that ;)
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13:08.05gregjnot funny, heh ?
13:12.05gregj;p
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13:27.32morsingcatalyst!
13:40.38catalystmorsing!
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13:43.30gw280lalala
13:45.44morsingMmm... Lard
13:45.46morsingdick_turpin!
13:46.13wethringw280 clearly has some issues he needs to sort out
13:46.22gw280wethrin: I do?
13:46.25dick_turpinmorsing I too scared to say anything incase you crush me, again.
13:46.33wethrinYes
13:46.38gw280wethrin: what?
13:46.39morsingdick_turpin: ?
13:46.53morsingdick_turpin: When have I ever crushed you?
13:47.07dick_turpinsee what I mean, youre very hard work :-)
13:47.11morsing?
13:47.20morsingwethrin: What's he on about?
13:47.35dick_turpinYou didnt like my Lara joke
13:47.37wethrindunno
13:47.59morsingdick_turpin: It wasn't a joke. And Laura is hotter than Lara anyway...
13:49.02dick_turpinI liked it
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14:10.54morsingBeer
14:10.55dick_turpintonight
14:12.38morsingBeer
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14:49.22morsingNice
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15:01.07morsingcatalyst!
15:01.23catalyst`morsing!
15:01.38morsingBus++
15:02.22catalyst`Journey = Bus .. Train
15:05.16morsingNice
15:06.20catalyst`au revoiur!
15:06.22catalyst`bah
15:06.24morsingBye
15:06.26catalyst`I can never spell that right
15:06.31morsingGood for you
15:06.39catalyst`:)
15:13.29JosefAssadwhat does one call the person who helps a magician out but pretends to be someoen from the audience?
15:13.35JosefAssadwhat was that bloody word...
15:13.42boudiccassucker
15:13.56boudiccasa 'plant'
15:14.17JosefAssadeh, no. There's a word. GAH!
15:14.22morsingHow long would CPU be high for after starting up MySQL if it has several GBs of DBs?
15:14.38antiphaseInsufficient context
15:14.38boudiccasJosefAssad; why are they called a 'GAH'???
15:15.00morsingHow long would CPU be high for after starting up MySQL if it has several GBs of DBs?
15:15.34antiphaseInsufficient context. How busy is it? What proportion of queries can you server from cache? etc.
15:15.50morsingantiphase: 99.9%
15:16.01antiphaseHas it started serving answers yet?
15:16.09morsingDon't think so
15:16.37cpufreaktook about 5 seconds for my mysqld to restart this morning following an apt-get upgrade of it.
15:16.58cpufreakwith about 9GB of databases
15:17.06morsingThis sucks
15:17.14boudiccasgravity sucks
15:17.15haliit will take more cpu if tables are pinned to memory
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15:20.50morsingclive-h!
15:21.00JosefAssadCONFEDERATE
15:21.05clive-hHi morsing
15:21.13boudiccasJosefAssad; plant
15:21.14JosefAssadeh... wikipedia truly has everything
15:21.46JosefAssadboudiccas: plant works also, but it strikes me as very British. I think confederate might be more neutral
15:22.03boudiccasJosefAssad; true
15:23.39JosefAssadodd, :setlocal spell no longer highlights errors...
15:23.58JosefAssadOh, it does. I just needed to spell somethig wrong. Stupid me
15:24.34boudiccasJosefAssad; so, are you a wizard then or a warlock setting all these spells
15:25.10JosefAssadeh?
15:25.52boudiccasJosefAssad; you said 'odd, :setlocal spell no longer highlights error' therefore, you were setting a spell
15:26.21boudiccasalbeit a local spell
15:28.22boudiccasJosefAssad; don't worry, this is just silliness due to me being a bit stressed from having a job interview
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15:36.17Copeibot change 5300 usd to gbp
16:35.12gw280GRARGH NX
16:43.25Cope..
17:02.49wethrinrar
17:03.10trousers_tar
17:06.46wethrinI'm hungry
17:13.11trousers_Eating typically helps :P
17:15.06wethrinyeah
17:18.27wethrinWaa. I don't have enough money :(
17:31.17gw280wethrin: stop buying crap at waitrose then, you layabout studen
17:31.17gw280t
17:31.42wethrinMaybe I should stop buying curries!
17:31.56cpufreakmake your own
17:32.12wethrinThat involves effort
17:32.19wethrinSometimes I just can't be arsed
17:33.58gw280http://youtube.com/watch?v=WzsmIxrwki4
17:34.02gw280CLASSICS LESSON! :D
17:34.50wethrinYAy!
17:35.21wethrin"doubtless you would recall had you not attended the LSE"
17:35.21gw280"or doubtless, you would have recalled, had you not attended the LSE"
17:35.24wethrinboom
17:35.42gw280the LSE sucks :D
17:35.52wethrinIt's one of the few times that Bernard gets any words in
17:35.57gw280indeed
17:35.59gw280it's hilarious :D
17:36.04gw280I loved Greek and Latin
17:36.09wethrinmad person
17:36.52gw280no
17:50.13gw280hi Cope
17:50.15wethrinCope!
17:50.27gw280ew
18:53.55wethrinHm
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19:05.48gw280PIZZA
19:05.51gw280I NEED FOOD DAMN IT
19:05.59wethrinPizza++ # was tasty, but now gone
19:14.12gw280hrm
19:14.19gw280I'm too lazy to get out of bed to go get food
19:14.24gw280won't kill me to miss a meal anyway
19:31.54wethrinSo phone for delivery
19:40.37z00daxgw280: i can dcc some food over
19:46.56gw280lol
20:08.09gw280I now have a tub of ben & jerrys
20:23.44wethrinfat bastard
20:27.18gw280wethrin: I'm having a girlie evening :P
20:28.03wethrinBastard.
20:28.29gw280wethrin: surely 'bitch' would be more appropriate?
20:28.34wethrinGet her!
20:33.11boudiccasgw280; hah! you haven't got any pepper, you're eating ice cream in bed
20:33.18gw280boudiccas: shush
20:33.24gw280I'm bored
20:33.34gw280I'm watching Cube
20:34.00z00daxi have so many machines - not one of them can do pacifia or vt
20:34.19z00daxi need more machines
20:34.23boudiccaslol
20:34.41z00daxhttp://img144.imageshack.us/img144/7515/00001aj5.jpg
20:34.46clive-hI bought this one for 299
20:34.53z00daxgeek p0rn
20:35.00clive-hIt's athlon 64 x 2
20:35.05clive-hDoes pacifica
20:35.54boudiccasz00dax; 1TB!!!!
20:36.04z00daxdamn. when i built my first x86_64 machine - that was a amd64-3000 the first 939 chip based one - and cost me around £580
20:36.20clive-hThis was this year
20:36.35z00daxwas about 2 years back though, not that I've used it for anything much besides building rpms and as my desktop for a very short while
20:36.37clive-hPrices have fallen somewhat
20:36.49z00daxits now my vmware-server host, need to transition that to xen soon, once c5 is out
20:37.01z00daxboudiccas: yea, someone i know is testing it for them
20:37.05z00daxnote the serial number
20:37.20z00daxaaaaaaah he blurr'd it out
20:37.32clive-hThis is my desktop
20:37.35boudiccasyes, i wonder why :)
20:38.14clive-hXen doesn't support sound on this box so I don't run that
20:38.41z00daxmy main desktop is my Mac G5, running centos-5 now, my other real desktop is my laptop which i use about 60% more than the desktop
20:39.06z00daxcant wait for Xen/ppc to become a bit more stable and usable
20:39.23boudiccasz00dax; centos-5 beta or testing stable?
20:39.27clive-hMy mac is a G4 not smp
20:39.34z00daxclive-h: you might be able to get an el-cheapo 32bit soundcard somewhere that does work with xen
20:39.51z00daxboudiccas: on the G5 ? its a kinda rawhide'ish centos-5/final
20:40.01z00daxmy laptop is c5/final :)
20:40.05clive-hI'm not employed presently so new hardware is tricky
20:40.32boudiccasis c5/final available for testing?
20:40.34clive-hI ought to grab c5 final really
20:40.43z00daxboudiccas: not yet, it will be in a day or so
20:40.59boudiccask, ty. i'm interested in testing it :)
20:41.07clive-hI could bung it on my laptop
20:41.09z00daxit went out to -qa yesterday, and in brilliant qa style, they wait till the last freaking minute before reporting 18 issues
20:41.34z00daxand all of them trivial, imho - in their opinion - blockers
20:41.40boudiccaseasily solvable issues i hope?
20:42.24z00daxyea, typo's here and there - a build order issue, a parted dep issue, someone found Fedora mentioned somewhere, another chap found something that might if looked at in a specific angle be the redhat shadowman logo . etc
20:44.41gw280OOH I CAN CUDDLE MY PIKACHU! :D
20:44.56clive-hI ought to volunteer to do rpm builds for stuff I suppose on Fedora or Centos
20:45.09z00daxthat would be really cool
20:45.20z00daxfedora has lots of people - centos needs people to help out
20:45.47clive-hI did rpms for the BBC when I worked for BBC Technology
20:46.13z00daxthere does seem to be much centos usage at the bbc these days
20:46.34clive-hWe were using RHEL 4 then
20:46.43z00daxi bet they still are
20:46.46clive-hand Solaris
20:46.53z00daxbut they seem to also be using some centos
20:47.02clive-hI did solaris packages too
20:47.06z00daxso the bbc, any fun to work there ?
20:47.15z00daxy
20:47.19clive-hIt was a hell of a commute
20:47.23z00daxyou can do rpms on solaris :)
20:47.33z00daxwhere were/are they based ?
20:47.44clive-hpkgadd is the native format on solaris
20:47.52clive-hmaidenhead
20:48.17z00daxyou were doing crayford -> maidenhead daily ?
20:48.26clive-hyes
20:48.33clive-hVery very painful
20:48.34z00daxu da man
20:48.42clive-h3 hours each way at best
20:49.03clive-h3 month contract
20:50.16clive-hI was so glad when it was over
20:51.57z00daxi would have taken up a place on rent nearer to work if it was 3 months
20:52.19clive-hIn retrospect I should have
20:52.56clive-hMy first contract role though
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21:02.54morsingceronman!
21:03.13z00daxmorsing:
21:03.19morsingclive-h: Sounds like fun :)
21:03.21morsingz00dax!
21:03.38z00daxmorsing: curry ?
21:05.06clive-hFun: two trains,a tube and a cab each way
21:05.06wethrinCurry!
21:05.14clive-hIt did pay well though
21:06.18morsingwethrin!
21:06.26morsingz00dax: Yes - just had one
21:07.52ceronmanhello morsing
21:08.05wethrinmorsing!
21:08.55z00daxclive-h: cant really do that sort of a thing for too long through
21:08.57z00daxthough
21:09.30clive-hIt was only 3 months
21:09.59morsingMy contract has a termination period from the company (4 weeks) but not for me
21:10.06morsingIs that bad?
21:10.25clive-hThat sounds a bit bad
21:10.45morsingHmm... So it should explicitely state my termination period?
21:11.05clive-hI'd expect it too yes
21:11.08morsingHmm...
21:11.17morsingCrap, getting more and more delayed
21:11.31z00daxyes, bonded labour is kinda illegal now isnt it ?
21:11.35z00daxbe nice if you could leave them
21:11.55clive-hThough the Employment Acts do have statutory provisions
21:14.28morsingThis is stupid, first they get the start date wrong and now this
21:14.44morsingWhat should I say - like four weeeks? Two weeks?
21:14.50clive-hHow long have you been there?
21:15.14morsing-34 days
21:15.24z00daxif you make it the same as their term, you are covered each way
21:15.39clive-h1 week sounds about right then
21:16.14morsing1 week? For a 5 month contract?
21:16.37clive-hIt's normally 1 week under 3 months service
21:16.42clive-hThen a month
21:17.12clive-hYou should have parity with their options to terminate
21:19.41morsingI though when it was a contract it didn't change
21:20.00morsingIs there anything else I need to check reading through this?
21:20.05clive-hDepends on the terms of the contract
21:20.13morsingHmm...
21:20.39clive-hIf your termination options aren't specified assume parity with theirs
21:20.48morsingOk
21:21.18morsingUnless otherwise stated in the Project Schedule or in clauses 12(b) or 12(c) below, there is no provision for early termination of this contract by either party.
21:21.43clive-hand what do those say?
21:22.01morsingIncompentence or conduct etc
21:22.37clive-hThen they might hold you to the full term
21:23.13morsingNice - need a new contract
21:23.17morsingOR another job
21:24.05clive-hI need a job full stop
21:24.17clive-hBut I think it's doable
21:24.31morsingOh hang on... I waas reading the agency's contract with the client
21:24.37morsingThat's different
21:24.53morsingProject Schedule
21:25.41goibhniumorsing: afaik they can't hold you to anything that isn't legal, I'd say you have a right to quit with a months notice regardless of the contract
21:26.13morsinggoibhniu:  I'm payed weekly though which in DK would mean a weeks notice
21:26.27clive-hAhhh
21:26.37morsingclive-h: ?
21:26.43clive-hAre you working in DK?
21:26.51morsingNo
21:26.58morsingJust comparing
21:27.03clive-hThen UK law is gonna apply
21:27.11haliyou dawwgs
21:27.20clive-hI'd say a max of a month
21:27.27clive-hpossibly a week
21:27.32morsingclive-h: Well of course...
21:28.00clive-hAsk their HR on Monday
21:28.06morsingclive-h: But should still be in the contract?
21:28.26clive-hIt is usual to be explicitly stated
21:28.36morsingclive-h: I'm getting this done through the agency. They need to change the contract
21:29.09goibhniumorsing: there are also some things you could have a look at relating to ir35
21:30.43morsinggoibhniu: I've sent it to my accountant
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21:36.25wethrintarragon!
21:36.35tarragonwethrin, !!!
21:37.42goibhniumorsing: might be worth a look anyway http://www.biteconsulting.co.uk/ir35info/contract_advice.htm
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22:29.40gw280lalala
22:30.28tarragonGoing mad?
22:31.00gw280already happened, kind sir.
22:34.08tarragonsurely not! It is the weekend with a whole two days of no work
23:12.53wethrinrar
23:13.01gw280rar x wethrin
23:14.32wethrinYar
23:21.18wethrinSleeptime. Have a good weekend, folks!

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