IRC log for #gllug on 20070405

00:01.54catalystit's okay, you can have some blood too
00:02.17trousers_:D
00:03.46z00daxgw280: not always
00:04.01z00daxicepacks are better in most cases, and if you dont know - your better guess is an icepack
00:05.18clive-heudora for linu?
00:05.30clive-hx
00:12.21z00daxyea
00:12.34z00daxthem thrown their lot in with them mozilla folkx
00:15.28clive-hah yes moving to thunderbird
00:17.56gw280z00dax: are you coming to akademy this year? :P
00:18.03z00daxwhre is it ?
00:18.13gw280glasgow
00:19.33z00daxi might
00:19.42z00daxwill someone pay for my hotel ?
00:19.52gw280no
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00:20.40clive-hhmmm
00:21.20clive-hi hope fedora 7 works better on this laptop
00:21.49gw280use ubuntu :D
00:21.50clive-hit's not seeing 2 of my 4 usb ports
00:22.08clive-herrrk debian based no thanks
00:22.21clive-hI like rpm
00:22.35clive-hand yum
00:22.45z00daxclive-h: try smartpm sometime. its not half bad
00:22.55z00daxbtw, do you know why the 2 other usb's are not seen ?
00:23.06clive-hNot yet
00:23.23clive-hdmesg detects them
00:24.20clive-hBut plugging an external trackball doesn't work with them
00:25.11clive-hwhat's smartpm?
00:26.15z00daxits a package manager, like yum, written in python - but based on a more user usability focused approach
00:26.36clive-herrrk
00:26.36z00daxyum focuses on doing the right thing, making no assumptions and making no decisions for you. Smartpm does some of that
00:27.01clive-hi'd rather use yum
00:27.02z00daxbut mostly in a good way, and has lots of features from other pkging systems before and since
00:27.14z00daxalthough, yum is catching up in features thanks for plugins now
00:27.18clive-hi know what i'm doing
00:27.42clive-hand i know rpm very well
00:29.03clive-hAnd I never install guis on servers anyway
00:30.04clive-hClearly my laptop isn't a server
00:30.37z00dax:)
00:30.37gw280anyone here know much about good quality fountain pens?
00:31.03z00daxgw280: Montblanc sorts /
00:34.20gw280z00dax: decent ones.
00:34.20clive-hblimey
00:34.20z00daxI like my Montblanc :)
00:34.21clive-hdo they still make Quink ink
00:34.21gw280http://theonlinepencompany.com/product_images/P_Sonnet_Laque_Blk_ST_FP_L.jpg
00:34.21gw280I'm tempted to get that
00:34.21gw280clive-h: yes
00:34.21z00daxI had a nice cross at one point that someone nick'd off me
00:34.21clive-hAt one point I used a quite expensive parker fountain pen
00:34.21gw280cross?
00:34.22clive-hbut i rarely handwrite anything these days
00:34.22z00daxwww.cross.com
00:35.14gw280the guy across the corridor from me has three 150 pound parkers
00:35.21clive-halthough i do keep notebooks in my strange handwriting when i'm working
00:35.59clive-hi quite like those narrow point pens
00:36.58clive-hand black not blue ink
00:37.22z00daxpurple and green ink for me
00:38.52clive-hgreen ink for me is what auditors use
00:39.26trousers_I can't stand anything that isn't black ink.
00:39.41clive-hi trained as an accountant
00:40.05clive-hof sorts anyway
00:40.35clive-hi was happy to move to IT
00:40.51z00daxjust
00:42.05clive-hI should pull my VMS stuff off the other bo
00:48.06z00daxocaml ?
00:48.16z00daxor is that no longer obscure enough for most folkx
00:48.24clive-hLol
00:48.33z00daxlua!
00:49.03clive-hIs rexx obscure enough?
00:49.16z00daxthats mainstream
00:49.17clive-hOr FileTAB?
00:49.29clive-hor APL
00:49.31z00daxi did rexx for a while, and lots of banks and large companies still use rexx day to day
00:49.42z00daxFileTAB => NeverHeardOfIt
00:49.51z00daxapl, was well before my time, i am not old :)
00:50.23clive-hNational Computing Centre did FileTAB
00:50.35clive-hthere's a linux port
00:51.00clive-hAPL is still used in banking
00:52.04clive-hI had BCPL,Forth and Lisp on my BBC
00:53.44clive-hlua is obscure though
00:57.05gw280http://theonlinepencompany.com/product_images/P_100_Cobalt_Black_SL_FP_L.jpg
00:57.13gw280any comments on the parker 100?
00:58.50clive-hit's black
00:59.53clive-hisn't the point what it's like to write with?
01:00.45clive-hdon't you live in Cambridge?
01:01.22clive-hthere are shops that sell pens there
01:02.21gw280I'm in london trying to recover
01:02.56gw280and I have no intention of leaving
01:03.02gw280the house
01:03.03clive-hthere's a parker shop in fleet street
01:03.18gw280I'm not running around london in the state that I'm in
01:03.26clive-hjust beyond the aldwych
01:03.29z00daxgw280: you can walk
01:04.02gw280z00dax: yes, but my face is all munged up, and my left arm is in a cast
01:05.13clive-hif you're in london, local ryman shops sell high end pens
01:06.10gw280I'm in Mill Hill
01:06.15gw280anyway, I need to go to A&E tomorrow
01:06.17gw280(woohoo)
01:06.45z00daxwhy ? planning on another accident ?
01:06.53clive-ha&e is never fun
01:06.59gw280z00dax: check up
01:07.15z00daxi didnt think you had to go via a&e for regular checkups, isnt that via appointment with a doc ?
01:07.29clive-hYou mean outpatients then
01:07.40gw280z00dax: well, I need to move my appointment from A&E in Cambridge to my local one in Barnet
01:08.29clive-hA&E is emergency only
01:08.33gw280indeed
01:08.56gw280but I was told to go to A&E to reschedule
01:11.08clive-hwell that may be a local thing
01:12.52clive-hthere's a rymans on finchley central high street
01:13.08clive-hoh i like rotring pens
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03:27.44z00daxso, there seem to be a bunch of cops on my street
04:14.00Leedsfun
06:14.24morsingLeeds!
06:19.21morsingLeeds?
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06:42.18morsingniv_one_three!
06:45.32niv_one_threeshould I say "suck me" ?
06:45.36niv_one_three:-)
06:45.38morsing?
06:46.12niv_one_threethat yesterday corespondece you had with that chap...
06:46.22morsing"That chap"?
06:46.25morsingGeorge?
06:47.10niv_one_threeI dont remember
07:05.30morsingMmm... George
07:18.29niv_one_three:-) genesis: "its time for lunch ..."
07:31.24morsingWhy do I get this message when clicking on the RSS link:
07:31.24morsing<PROTECTED>
07:54.54morsingHello?
08:13.49niv_one_threewhat?
08:17.21gw280hrm
08:17.29gw280just booted out of A&E
08:17.59gw280they apparently have this silly desire to have my medical record before treating me :)
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08:19.15sabinef72morning all
08:19.28morsingsabinef72!
08:19.28morsinggoibhniu!
08:19.57goibhniumorsing!
08:20.32gw280silly hospitals
08:26.11morsinggw280: How are you today?
08:29.04sabinef72me ? I'm ok
08:29.13sabinef72and there is still a big sun
08:29.16sabinef72that's cheers me up
08:32.51morsingIt's cold but sunny here :)
08:37.16bilarhbloody district line
08:37.31bilarhi had to sit with the proles on the bus for an hour :(
08:40.14morsingMmm... Profiteroles
08:43.28morsingsabinef72: What are you doing today?
08:44.20sabinef72translations in french and spanish for the baby game
08:46.12morsingCool - do you need danish as well?
08:48.53sabinef72you are the only dane people I know ... and you understand english
08:52.28morsing:)
08:55.12sabinef72but you can practise more french and spanish
08:55.26bilarhcerrar
08:55.29sabinef72you can read english and you will have translations in french and spanish too
08:55.31bilarhmeans close program, i think :)
08:55.37bilarhalt-f4 cerrar
08:55.49sabinef72cerrar = to close
08:55.55bilarhthat's all i remember from working in a spanish office for a couple of weeks some years back
08:56.25morsingNice - not very scandinavian...
08:56.52bilarhfor some reason i seem to recall the word "impregnar" on some menu in office as well... i'm not quite sure why microsoft would have added a menu option to impregnate someone, especially in a catholic country
08:57.13bilarhor maybe it was imprimer :)
08:58.12sabinef72sound strange
09:02.18bilarhit's just my accent :(
09:12.07sabinef72are you an english man ? (or woman) ?
09:15.32morsingsabinef72: Swedish I think...
09:20.03bilarhi prefer to think of myself as european :)
09:20.42morsingSo do I actually
09:21.23goibhniumorsing: not for long
09:21.25bilarhi keep thinking of you as norweigan for some reason :)
09:21.45goibhniumorsing do you have to sing "god save the queen"?
09:21.58bilarhthe sex pistols version :)
09:22.20bilarhi know it's terrible, but i actually bought the "nerver mind the bollocks, here's the sex pistols" t-shirt last weekend :9
09:22.24bilarhit's bright yellow too :D
09:22.38bilarhso i look a bit like a fat chicken in it, but it's ok because it's easter :)
09:22.45morsinggoibhniu: ?
09:22.57goibhniubilarh: is that why you were asking about car hifi gear?
09:23.16morsinggoibhniu: What did you mean?
09:23.26goibhniumorsing: when you turn your back on your proud nation and become an imperialist
09:23.33sabinef72bilarh: it was just to know if it's easy to speak spanish for an english man
09:23.55bilarhgoighniu:  no actually, it's just that there's a "black cat" on one of the car audio forums that seems to know what he's talking about, and i think he's a linux admin (might be completely wrong), and then i saw that wethrin's ptr is blackcatnetworks something
09:25.01bilarhsabine: ah :-) Spanish is quite different to english... it's a bit like trying to speak french, but really really fast
09:27.10morsinggoibhniu: Uhmm... I'll hopefully be a british citizen within a year...
09:27.30morsingsabinef72: No language is easy for english people. They suck at languages
09:28.14sabinef72lol
09:28.31sabinef72is it for this reason, it's difficult for me to understand an english accent ?
09:29.02sabinef72bilarh: do you speak french ?
09:30.06bilarhsabine: only very very little
09:30.32bilarhsabine: no, it's probably because it's quite likely that the english person you're speaking to is drunk :)
09:34.06goibhniuyou know the way in the location bar in firefox on windows ctrl+arrow keys lets you jump words ... I wish I could do that :(
09:35.16morsingBiedo
09:37.22sabinef72bilarh: no english people is speaking too quick for me
09:37.34sabinef72bilarh: how come .... mozrat was drunk ??????
09:37.57bilarhwho's mozrat?
09:38.19bilarhhave you been at the wine bottle already this morning?
09:39.32sabinef72ask morsing
09:39.45sabinef72bilarh: and I'm not drunk, I can't drink
09:40.13bilarhmorsing: who's mozrat?
09:40.25bilarhsabine: ah yes... i forget so much nowadays :)
09:41.09bilarhto be fair, there's a bunch of english accents i still can't understand...
09:41.23bilarhthe liverpool and manchester accents are hard
09:41.34bilarhas is the scottish one if it's too broad
09:41.49bilarhin fact, i'd say anything north of the watford stop gap is a bit hard :-)
09:43.22morsingbilarh: Huh? Are you trying to be funny?
09:43.27bilarhno
09:43.28bilarhi'm serious
09:43.35bilarhwell, not all northern accents are hard
09:43.37bilarhbut there are many that are
09:43.55bilarhe.g. a broad scouse accent is *really* hard to understand
09:43.55bilarhimo
09:43.59bilarhof course :)
09:44.02morsingbilarh: No I meant about mozrat?
09:44.12morsingHow can you not know who mozrat is?
09:44.20bilarhwho the hell is mozrat?
09:44.37bilarhare you just mis-spelling mozart?
09:44.56morsingUnbelieveable
09:45.07morsingbilarh: Have the checked the channel website?
09:45.21bilarhno?
09:45.27bilarhi just come here to argue :)
09:46.31morsingbilarh: http://silenceisdefeat.org/~mozrat/gllug/
09:47.20morsingErmmm... Actually, last generated on 15th of October? That's not right?
09:47.29morsingping mozrat
09:48.43bilarhsee, ibot's as confused as I am
09:49.09bilarhbut now that i've seen the myspace-lite.com link i know that mozrat plays pool:P
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10:13.22morsingIAmAI!
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10:32.34morsingSlayerXP!
10:34.08wethrinhello
10:46.03morsingwethrin!
10:46.16wethrinhi
11:05.54morsingWhere's Paul?
11:06.34morsingwethrin?
11:07.22wethrinyes?
11:09.36morsingYou are driving a big, brick-like object along the motorway...
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11:10.31bilarhanyone got a blackberry 8800?
11:10.32morsingWhere's Paul?
11:10.32morsingwethrin: Where's Paul?
11:10.40morsingtrousers_!
11:10.41wethrinI ate him. With fava beans and a nice chianti
11:12.55morsingwethrin: Carla says she's not coming to my leaving do if we're going to the honey pot
11:13.13wethrinokaaay....
11:13.46morsingwethrin: ?
11:13.56wethrinyes?
11:14.02morsing12:13 < wethrin> okaaay....
11:14.24wethrinWell, I don't know what the honey pot is, or where it is. Although I think there's one that's a pub in Oxford.
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11:19.33morsingThe Honey Pot is a strip joint in Maidenhead.
11:24.46morsingOk, going to the airport...
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11:31.38trousers_morsing: What was that server hosting place, again... Red-something?
11:33.46trousers_Redbus, that was it.
11:35.40antiphaseHome of the power outage
11:36.56wethrinmorsing: Have a good Easter!
11:37.15wethrinHm. Looks like it's about time for me to head off
12:16.36niv_one_threethis holiday is having wonders on my stomach
12:44.19morsingcatalyst!
12:44.44morsingniv_one_three: Beer?
12:44.47catalystmorsing!
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12:47.35morsingI'm getting concerned for Paul
12:47.56morsingJasperw!
12:58.15morsingcatalyst: Why is Paul not responding?
12:59.10Copewhich paul?
13:00.54morsingPaul Rundle
13:12.08Copeoh
13:16.19catalystumm
13:16.23catalystbees
13:18.47morsingwasps
13:20.00Cope:)
13:24.08Copesure
13:36.04Copehmm
13:48.40goibhniuany good ppc live-cds?
13:48.55goibhniupreferably with a multimedia slant
13:51.13morsingyoink
14:07.53halihm anyone in london happend to have a HP/Compaq ML350g3 spare power supply?
14:22.13morsingstrawberry
14:23.59goibhniutriffids
14:25.04sabinef72I'm back
14:25.13morsing:)
14:25.29sabinef72:-)
14:25.47sabinef72I have pictures to order for scrapbooking
14:25.53sabinef72do you know scrapbooking ?
14:26.20morsingIn what way? I think I do
14:42.06bilarhcheck out the picture from this swedish news paper: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/umea/story/0,2789,1039471,00.html
14:44.01bilarhapparently, that's what this artist does and has done since 2001... her art form is 'peeing in public' :P
14:44.29goibhniubilarh: beautiful
14:44.51bilarhit is actually, but nevertheless it's causing a couple of raised eyebrows in northern sweden :)
14:45.24catalystwhat
14:46.04catalystthey look like they're too busy pissing around :|
14:46.15bilarhgoibhniu: they gave it a good shot in the 17th and 18th century, but then those pesky french and russian kings fought back :(
14:46.38bilarhactually, that's a spanish artist :)
14:46.44bilarhmaybe i need to learn spanish after all
14:49.15Copefactoi
14:49.16Coped
14:59.28morsingBeer
15:02.08goibhniuproportional representation
15:18.29Copestv
15:20.10morsinggw280: You suck
15:22.15bilarhman it's so hot outside!
15:22.23bilarhi've just been out to have a cup of coffee outside
15:55.24haliit's warn and nice
15:55.29haliand lots of skimpy ladies :P
15:55.47gw280hi Cope
15:55.50halipub in soho on a day like this is my version of heaven!
15:56.05halistanding outside a shitty pub, drinking nice cold beer...
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18:35.50gw280hmm
18:50.04gregjhttp://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6173619.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news
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19:42.55goibhniutrousers_: why not do kernel dev?
19:47.28goibhniuI'm just listening to the latest tllts ... they're interviewing a kernel dev
19:47.37goibhniuapparently it's real easy to get into it these days
19:47.43gw280so?
19:48.02goibhniuand trousers_ is looking for a challenge
19:48.31gw280yes, you don't start your coding career by hacking low level C unless you want to go mad
19:49.08goibhniutrousers_ really wants to go mad
19:49.35goibhniu~seen trousers_
19:50.07ibottrousers_ is currently on #gllug (1h 23m 9s), last said: 'Redbus, that was it.'.
19:50.17gw280besides, if you want to do kernel stuff I recommend you pick up a copy of tanenbaum and digest minix first
19:51.45goibhniuthe reason I mention it is that this guy is saying there are avenues for noobs ... I wouldn't have considered it approachable myself
19:52.47gw280and by newbies he probably means new to kernel stuff, not new to programming.
19:52.49goibhniuhe also says there is lots of cash in it ... and you can work in your pyjamas
19:55.55goibhniuthat sounds right ... http://kernelnewbies.org/CompleteNewbiesClickHere ... seems to assume prior knowledge
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