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06:06.52mumpererMorining :)
06:11.12JosefAssadmorning
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07:42.31niv_one_threeassad!
07:44.24clive-hOh dear me
07:44.33niv_one_three?
07:44.49clive-hF7 64 bit has no include files
07:45.10clive-hSo building vmware is a tad impossible
08:01.18morsingBeer
08:01.25morsing~seen goibhniu
08:02.04ibotgoibhniu <n=cillian@87-194-36-120.bethere.co.uk> was last seen on IRC in channel #zaurus, 14d 14h 50m 19s ago, saying: 'I can't seem to browse through the downloads on zaurususersgroup.org and I'm looking for a pdf with a template for cutting out a screen protector for the 6000. Does anyone happen to have it here?'.
08:11.06morsing:(
08:11.14morsingcries
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10:49.38Leedshalloo
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11:00.46andrew__4hi there
11:05.08Leedsevening andrew__4
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11:24.19morsingniv_one_three!
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11:42.06JosefAssad'lo
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12:17.11morsinggeospart!
12:17.26geospartthats me
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12:42.51morsingniv_one_three!
12:45.14niv_one_three:-)
12:45.27niv_one_threeair blowed my desktop
12:45.38niv_one_threebig cloud in my face
12:46.42morsingHmm...
12:46.55morsingping wethrin
12:47.14wethrinyes?
12:47.24niv_one_threewhat is the right way to do this: find /source/outside/ -ctime 0 | xargs mv /target
12:47.27niv_one_three?
12:48.10wethrinfor i in `find /source/outside/ -ctime 0` ; do mv $i /target ; done
12:48.21niv_one_threethnaks mate
12:48.40wethrinnp
12:48.48wethrinAt least, that's how I'd do it :)
12:51.02niv_one_threeneed to flex that for muscle
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13:01.50morsinghuw-l!
13:01.55huw-lhey
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13:33.47morsingzx80user!
13:33.50morsingclive-h!
13:33.51niv_one_threedid anyone publish a guide for converting your GF to using GNU based OS?
13:34.03niv_one_threelike a ten step program
13:34.21clive-hHi morsing
13:34.23zx80userstep one: dump her
13:34.29zx80userstep two: errrrr
13:34.37niv_one_threeoh ya, since my folks did the deed of installing M$ office, they where fully converted to linux
13:34.43zx80user(morsing!)
13:34.52morsingBeer
13:34.53niv_one_threegentoo linux
13:34.53clive-hJust make the pc linux only
13:35.06niv_one_threemorsing: I feel your pain...
13:35.09clive-hadd appropriate icons to her desktop
13:35.35zx80userniv_one_three I just told SO that was the way it was gonna be.
13:35.39niv_one_threewe r dating for 15 days now
13:35.46zx80userFive years later she doesn't moan too much
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13:36.20zx80user15 days and you want her to go all the way? Heavy stuff
13:36.35niv_one_threeI mentioned she may use ICQ to sms for free, on day 2, now she has ICQ
13:37.05niv_one_threeI am now considering how to push GNU in to her computing life
13:37.29niv_one_threebasically show her firefox and thunderbird
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13:41.34morsingcatalyst!
13:41.47catalystmorsing!
13:41.51catalystello
13:43.59boudiccasshow her you never need to defrag and that you're virus and trojan free
13:44.33boudiccasthats hwta won me over
13:44.36boudiccas*what
13:45.23catalystintriguing
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13:46.09haliafterstep is what won me over :)
13:47.31[Clive]I like gnome or xfce4
13:47.43boudiccasnah kde :)
13:48.01boudiccasit just works
13:48.15[Clive]So do gnome or xfc4
13:48.41halipff
13:48.48halithis was before kde or gnome even existed
13:48.59haliwhen redhat came with fvwm95 as the default wm :)
13:49.10[Clive]I know
13:49.26[Clive]I've used redhat since v1.0
13:49.58[Clive]in ye olde days nmagic binaries i used Linux CDE
13:51.20boudiccasi bought RH9 just two weeks before it went public and free ... I was pissed at it!
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13:51.49halibummer
13:51.55[Clive]Lol I still have boxed copies of Redhat 5-8
13:52.09boudiccasi thought considerably stronger than that hali :)
13:52.34hali4.2 was quite exciting... came with the super 'fast' X server MetroX instead of XFree86
13:52.54[Clive]ahh yes metrox
13:53.09[Clive]strange how things change
13:53.28halifirst X server that worked without issues with my old ATI m64 graphics card
13:54.26boudiccaswho is this 'Nick' from services who keeps colliding with people?
13:54.37clive-hheh
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14:03.07boudiccaswe, the public, demand to know!
14:03.46clive-hheh
14:29.47niv_one_threeshould I show her how her pc maybe hacked to illustrate this?
14:30.24clive-hwhy not?
14:30.45niv_one_threeI think its is not that a good idea
14:31.31clive-hmost people use their pcs to surf the web, irc, play music,use office
14:31.43clive-hlinux does all of those
14:32.54niv_one_threeI would rather illustrate advantages..
14:33.02niv_one_threeamarok is a good example
14:33.34clive-hi use xmms don't like amarok
14:34.11niv_one_threeand I like thunderbird, firefox and kopete
14:34.30clive-hi should explain i've used linux as my desktop for many years
14:44.45JosefAssadI poop on amarok, and I will continue to until it does ipod podcasts properly, and video also
14:46.16JosefAssadthough I think it'ß more a problem with the underlying lib, as gtkpod also fails miserably
14:47.15clive-hi'd never buy an ipod
14:47.45JosefAssadWhat _would_ you buy?
14:48.32clive-humm something by creative labs probably
14:48.56clive-hor a treo
14:50.20Leedstreo++
14:50.53niv_one_threeI like my rio karma A LOT
14:51.04clive-hor maybe a n800 and a bluetooth phone
14:51.08niv_one_threeso old, yet 20Gb  suits me fine
14:51.47niv_one_threeby the way I used my dads palm this weekend with a pair of bluetooth headset
14:51.49niv_one_threenice
14:51.58niv_one_threebut no FLAC :-(
14:53.17Leedsthere is at least one PalmOS audio player which claims FLAC support
14:54.05niv_one_threefound a a2dp program for my nokia cell :-) by MSI
14:54.26niv_one_threeLeeds: what does SO mean? is it when I can't address her as GF?
14:54.43LeedsSO is Significant Other
14:55.23Leedsit's a more generic term than bf/gf, but it's also more meaningful than something like 'partner'
14:56.03niv_one_threeso it doesnt apply to define the time the couple are together - right
14:56.38niv_one_threeoh ya, it also allows the person here to stay cloaked, and not revele his sex
14:56.40niv_one_threenice
14:57.11Leedsthat too
14:57.59niv_one_threeone may even get educated here ...
14:58.16clive-hSO is a term that doesn't offend people of differing sexualities
14:58.38Leedsalso true
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15:12.14morsingJosefAssad!
15:12.52JosefAssadmonsieur morsing!
15:13.31morsing:(
15:16.21JosefAssadmorsing: shouldn't you be weekending now, instead of sitting in here earning your paycheck greeting people? Hmm?
15:16.27morsing:(
15:26.52JosefAssadclive-h: I would pick up a nice creative too if there was a service center nearby. Unfortunately, only Apple have that
15:44.14niv_one_threebye folks
16:01.08morsing:(
16:21.22morsing:)
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17:13.02morsinglondo!
17:13.05morsingping wethrin
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17:19.03morsingclive-h!
17:19.37clive-hhi morsing
17:23.29morsingHow are you?
17:24.15clive-hi've spent all the weekend installing Fedora 7
17:24.26clive-hso quite tired
17:24.46morsingI've spent 30 minutes installing Debian. Refreshing
17:25.45clive-hthe actual installs are quick enough
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17:26.08morsingranner!
17:26.10clive-hit's the setting up other stuff that takes the time
17:26.18morsingI just click on it
17:26.37clive-hi need things like vmware
17:27.17clive-hin fact loads of stuff since it's my desktop
17:28.54rannermorsing!
17:32.16morsingOk, if anyone here likes olders women, register on makefriendsonline and they'll all come to you
17:35.38halior drop by my office and i'll introduce you to our finance dept ;)
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17:43.31morsingdick_turpin!
17:43.39dick_turpinMorsing
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17:59.00morsingJosefAssad!
18:00.16boudiccashenrik!
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18:30.37JosefAssadmorsing¡
18:39.57wethrinhi
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19:15.17morsingbilarh_!
19:15.47boudiccasmorsing!
19:17.57morsingboudiccas!
19:23.23morsingDoes FreeBSD support VLANs on Intel 1000pro?
19:23.30morsingpro1000
19:31.03morsingJosefAssad: Is nsswitch.conf used by ldap?
19:41.14morsingJosefAssad?
20:16.23JosefAssadmorsing: no clue...
20:16.58rhowemorsing: It's used for determining how to enumerate things
20:17.04morsingYES! :)
20:17.32rhowemorsing: So if you want to be able to look up users in ldap (for getend, or ls to display ownerships, etc), you'll need an nss ldap provider listed
20:18.13JosefAssadmorsing: looks like it, yes. passwd: files ldap \n group files ldap
20:18.29JosefAssad(many knowledge areas I am missing, many)
20:18.31JosefAssad*sigh*
20:18.52morsingThanks to both of you, my dad asked me. I'm been distracted by something else for a sec... :)
20:19.27JosefAssadthank rhowe not me. He looks like he actually knows what he is saying, as opposed to me playing google frontend
20:20.54rhoweheya Henrik
20:20.54morsingrhowe: How's life?
20:20.54rhowemorsing: *shrug* it goes
20:20.54morsing:(
20:20.55rhowemorsing: Flat's slightly tidier than it was, just trying to avoid spending any money for the next couple of months :P
20:20.56morsingMmm... Caroline
20:20.59rhoweAnyone want a Cisco 801? :)
20:21.03morsingCan I visit?
20:21.06rhoweSure
20:21.18morsingI've got an 805 I want to get rid of
20:21.21morsingrhowe: Really?
20:21.25morsingI'd love to
20:21.34rhowemorsing: Yeah - there's nobody else here though
20:21.45rhoweWell, apart from mimi
20:22.24morsingmimi the cat?
20:22.32rhowemimi the parrakeet
20:22.40morsingIs that a cat?
20:23.01clive-hits a bird
20:23.09morsingclive-h: So his wife?
20:23.12JosefAssadoh great. Couldn't reschedule the oxford interview for the days I'll be in the UK :/
20:23.16JosefAssadERFFF.
20:23.17morsingOr a different kind of bird?
20:23.27clive-hno a bird
20:23.37clive-hwith wings et
20:23.39clive-hc
20:23.53morsingAhh...
20:24.03morsingI'm not interested in those
20:24.50rhoweSearch for "Mimi Howe" on facebook
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20:26.18morsingadminjs!
20:26.27morsingfacebook?
20:26.36morsingNot Mimi Jacobsen?
20:27.20rhowemorsing: Not Mimi Jacobsen, no
20:27.23rhowemorsing: facebook.com
20:29.01morsinghttp://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi_Jacobsen
20:29.07morsingOld photo!
20:29.17morsingrhowe: Identify!
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20:31.48z00daxhello
20:32.04z00daxhow is everyone doing ?
20:32.20rhowehm?
20:32.35rhowez00dax: Not terribly
20:32.46z00daxalways good that
20:33.04rhowemorsing: Ah, not that Mimi, no
20:33.46JosefAssadhi z00dax
20:33.52z00daxhey JosefAssad, howse it going
20:33.57adminjshello
20:33.58z00daxwhat dates are you in London ?
20:34.04z00daxadminjs: !
20:34.14JosefAssadz00dax: pretty damn good! Preparing for interview. How goes it with you?
20:34.33JosefAssadz00dax: tuesday through Friday. I know, I'm a lazy bastard not having posted on the list yet
20:34.43z00daxJosefAssad: quite interesting. I've been running Gnome with locate set to German, all day today - and its been fantastic!
20:35.16JosefAssadz00dax: If you like German, you'll LOVE Danish :p
20:35.34JosefAssad(if human languages were like computer languages...)  :)
20:35.53z00daxGerman, to me, is much like Danish and even Latin.
20:35.56adminjsif you like german you don't like danish
20:36.01rhowehmm
20:36.03z00daxnone of them mean anything to me
20:36.07rhowenow do I get a proper dinner, or have popcorn?
20:36.19z00daxrhowe: easy call, popcorn all the way
20:36.26JosefAssadadminjs: wouldn'þ know, my German's non-existent
20:36.38z00daxwith p0rn, beer and kernel hacking!
20:36.43JosefAssadheh
20:37.03rhowez00dax: Well 1/4 isn't so bad
20:38.22z00daxits the future of reality TV - 2 geeks, 24 non-geeks, each geek gets a dozen non-geeks, lock up each team in a wired-to-its-teeth house
20:38.49z00daxgive them 2 weeks, then have daily hacking-sprints, who writes a driver first, who finds 100 bugs in <foo code>
20:39.24adminjsmy system run all de_DE uft-8
20:39.30z00daxthe winning team gets beer, women and faster internet access.
20:39.39JosefAssadreverse those numbers for a bit of fun. Two geek teams of twelve, each with a non-geek to educate. 1 week, the first team to bring home either the concept of modal editing or C pointers wins. Consolation prizes for horrible suicides.
20:40.55z00daxJosefAssad: the problem with that is, the geeks will get on with it - while the non-geek plays tetris.
20:40.56JosefAssador, 24 geeks and once single-user computer with a 14.4 modem. For a month. In a house full of heavy blunt objects. Winnder gets gif pr0n.
20:41.13JosefAssads/Winnder/Winner/
20:41.48z00daxconverted to ascii art, parsed via a rot13 stream, printed on punch cards
20:42.38JosefAssadmade out of short shelf life pasta
20:43.27z00dax:)
20:44.38z00daxdoes anyone know of a decent GUI based dns zone file editor ?
20:44.55z00daxapart from system-config-bind, its a major pain getting s-c-bind looking at remote zones
20:45.34halithe webmin dns interface is ok
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20:46.08kjalilhello everyone!
20:46.30z00daxhali: webmin eats up a lot of cpucycles sitting around doing nothing, most of the time .
20:46.54kjalilz00dax: hello
20:47.15clive-hwebmin is a security breach waiting to happen
20:47.18z00daxhey kjalil
20:47.38kjalilclive-h!
20:47.39z00daxclive-h: i can lock down via IP - the guy who is going to use it - is going to come via 1 IP
20:48.20clive-hI loathe webmin
20:48.25z00daxme too
20:48.37kjalilz00dax: you planning on using webmin? i've hardly used it, thinking the same as clive-h, that it may not be safe
20:48.46z00daxbut , in some cases - its the best solution. Compared to cPanel, Plesk, DomainAdmin etc
20:49.04kjalilall alone, on port :10000 waiting to be broken in
20:49.10z00daxalthough, its been a while since i last looked at webmin, might be worth a second look now
20:49.40kjalilz00dax: really, i've never tried cPanel for example. is webmin really better than that and plesk?
20:49.56z00daxyes
20:50.04rhowemm, popcorn
20:50.07rhowealmost screwed it up
20:50.09rhoweforgot the butter
20:50.13z00daxatleast its not going to ask for its own unpatched, extremely broken apache and php etc .
20:50.41clive-hlol
20:50.46kjalilz00dax: ah so cPanel and others depend on some older apache and stuff then
20:52.19z00daxkjalil: yes
20:57.18kjalilz00dax: i saw you at one of the gllug meetings, sorry it was quite busy and i couldn't say hi
20:57.33JosefAssadkjalil: hi there
20:57.33kjalilz00dax: this was the october meeting, that room was quite packed :)
20:57.45kjalilJosefAssad: hi!
20:58.34z00daxkjalil: oh! we should meet at the next one then
20:58.35clive-hI'll get to the next one
20:58.35z00daxnot sure when and how that is going to happen though, we should really be planning something
20:58.37clive-hwetherin muttered about August
20:58.37kjalilz00dax: cool. yeah i remember you were surrounded on both sides by people asking for help :)
20:58.52kjalilclive-h: that's a long way away
20:58.57clive-hIt is
20:59.09kjalilhmm, 'way away'. is that right?
20:59.21halican't we just do a social somewhere and have some driiinks
20:59.26JosefAssad'way off' might look gentler
20:59.38halisoho is nice :P
20:59.41kjalilJosefAssad: spot on
20:59.53z00daxhali: absolutely. lets pick a date and organise something .
21:00.05JosefAssadIf I might suggest it; as I'm in town end of this week, social and drinks sounds spiffy
21:00.14hali20th?
21:00.41halithe endurance in soho? hoho
21:00.43z00daxWorks for me, but it will need to be an early night - I need to get online for an irc meeting by 10pm :)
21:01.06z00daxdont know where / what that is - but if you post to the gllug-social list, post some directions to the $venue :)
21:01.39haliwe could do the hems
21:01.52halidutch beer and close to china town for grub
21:01.52z00daxthat works for me too :)
21:02.02haliand it's got a big upstairs we could book
21:02.19z00daxbusaba is around the corner too.....
21:02.36z00daxbeen a while since I was there last, although  not sure if thats typical geek joint
21:02.41haliit's to  hyped though
21:02.54halilong queues in the evenings and the table arangement is not geek friendly .)
21:03.02z00daxyeah
21:03.07kjalilz00dax: busaba
21:03.07halisatsuma could work
21:03.11kjalilz00dax: ?
21:03.22halikjalil: thai food resturant in soho, great rottis
21:03.31halion wardour street
21:03.37clive-hI'd suggest new world in chinatown
21:04.02clive-hor melati just off soho
21:04.12z00daxok, so lets make the 20th semi-official. hali you get to make the noise on gllug-social :)
21:04.47halihm, there is a social booked for the 7th actually
21:05.14z00daxoh ?
21:05.37haliwith the pm's
21:05.37clive-h7th June?
21:05.58z00daxyeah, thats the pm's - be a good excuse to drink though :)
21:05.59haliyes, at the antelope in knightsbridge
21:06.03z00daxJosefAssad: will you be around ?
21:06.28JosefAssadz00dax: 7th? Yes. Day before I fly out to bloody Yemen
21:06.41morsingrhowe: Do you get my messages?
21:07.10rhowemorsing: messages?
21:07.20z00daxI've heard some fantastic things about Yemen.... supposed to be a kickass place to get out and into the outdoors
21:07.24rhowemorsing: Oh hang on.. need to identify
21:08.09JosefAssadz00dax: it'ß too insane for the likes of me, frankly.
21:08.36JosefAssadeveryone's bloody stoned there. All the bloody time. Our police escort asked us for money to buy drugs last time
21:08.57z00daxjoin the party!
21:09.20z00daxas long as the people in the shootout know what and who they are having a go at, you're safe
21:09.37halii thought yemen was like goats and beards and stuff
21:10.16JosefAssadhali: it is, mainly. and guns and kids whose growth was stunted by drugs. People there are just weird.
21:11.54JosefAssadvim viewports are a blessing
21:12.54JosefAssadz00dax: I might. That is the evening following my interview, so I might need a few lagers :)
21:13.08z00daxwho are you interviewing with ?
21:13.15JosefAssadBBC Tech.
21:13.25wethrinLagers!?
21:13.32wethrinDrink proper beer, dear boy!
21:13.38z00daxbut then I've only ever done maybe 3 interviews in my life
21:13.44JosefAssadwethrin: Happy to listen to ideas.
21:13.52haliLondon pride!
21:14.02haliserved cold, thats my drink atm
21:14.06z00daxwethrin: i think that might not be legal
21:14.13wethrinNo. Should never be served cold!!
21:14.18haliit should!
21:14.22wethrinz00dax: As long as he has food with it
21:14.26wethrinNo, it shouldn't.
21:14.29JosefAssadNow, no sweet or light beers. And (I know I'm not going to be liked for this) no dark beers or beers you serve warm.
21:14.31z00daxs/driving/drinking/
21:14.32wethrinCellar temperature, yes. But not cold
21:14.46wethrinOne should *never* serve a beer warm
21:14.47halinot cold and sin guiness extra cold, but colder than most pubs serv it
21:15.00wethrinAh, but that's because most pubs don't serve it very well
21:15.00halitbh, the best london pride is served at all bar one
21:15.06z00daxdid trousers_'s make 18 ?
21:15.09wethrinThat's just scary
21:15.16z00daxtrousers_: how old are you now ?
21:15.17trousers_z00dax: I'm still 15...
21:15.26z00dax'tis what i thought
21:15.31wethrinOne can drink in restaurants/pubs from 16, with food
21:15.36wethrinBah. Youngsters..
21:15.41trousers_And have 7 exams this week D: Oh woe is me!
21:15.59z00daxexams are easy, as long as you know what's in them
21:16.02wethrinBut they're only GCSEs, aren't they?
21:16.14trousers_wethrin: Nonetheless, geography is still difficult.
21:16.28wethrinI got bored of it after year 9
21:16.39JosefAssadI remember the first 15 year old we got in the LUG down here... come first InstallFest, poor chap was literally locked in a room with a marker and meters high stacks of burned CDs with the job of writing CD1 and CD2. For 8 hours.
21:16.50trousers_Ouch.
21:17.03JosefAssad(wasn't done intentionally; he was just too polite to make a fuss)
21:17.10trousers_Hehe.
21:17.20wethrinSince when are 15yos polite?
21:17.29JosefAssadwell. Except for the part about locking him in, nothing was intentional.
21:17.35trousers_wethrin: I like to think of myself as polite, good sir.
21:17.50z00daxtrousers_: is that before you are drunk or after ?
21:17.57JosefAssadwethrin: Soundproof glass. We didn't hear any profanity.
21:17.59wethrinWell, then, sir, do pass the port, there's a good chap
21:18.23trousers_z00dax: As stated earlier, this *points at body* is an ethanol free body... To an extent.
21:18.53JosefAssadperl mongers? The 7th is going to be perl coders? Oh dear... can we at least excluse the emacs users then? Just to maintain some standards.
21:19.05wethrinNothing wrong with emacs
21:20.07z00daxvile!
21:20.08antiphaseA place for everything, and everything in its place ;)
21:20.27clive-hI use emacs
21:20.41clive-hwhy are you excluding me?
21:21.40JosefAssadfrom #vim: 00:14 < mitsuhiko> i can take vim on an usb stick with me around the world and it will work everywhere (and it actually does)
21:21.45JosefAssad*sigh*
21:22.10wethrinI can take emacs on a USB stick!
21:22.18wethrinOne can easily get 4GB USB sticks...
21:22.59antiphaseI'm trying to get back into emacs for development work just for a change, it's difficult to get out of typing i and o before anything else though
21:23.20wethrinAnd not hit the escape key?
21:25.51rannerwhen I started using eclipse fr development I kept finding stray ':w's in my code
21:26.01ranneruntil I found a vi plugin for eclipse :)
21:26.32JosefAssadI was doing my presentation for the conference I have to speak at in Yemen and there were :wq's all over ooimpress
21:26.47antiphaseZZ 4tw
21:27.23JosefAssadonce I was driving and reached for the 'u' key after having shouted at another driver. Disturbing
21:27.33wethrinI haven't used ZZ for *years*
21:28.09JosefAssade neither. I _know_ ZZ, but an act of such import as to terminate the vim process deserves a colon and an Enter
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21:40.37z00dax|     (0.3%) ETA in 790:45:39 - 0 peers 1 seeds 0 dist copies - 1.1MiB dn 64.1KiB up  
21:40.44z00daxdont you love BitTorrent.....
21:40.56z00daxbtw, those stats are after 3 days of this thing being up
21:41.05clive-herrrk
21:41.07wethrinDownload a more popular torrent
21:41.25clive-hwhat are you downloading?
21:41.30JosefAssadI like rtorrent
21:41.49clive-hI use ktorrent these days
21:42.05wethrinI mostly use bittorrent or bittornado
21:42.11clive-hI used to use azureus
21:42.36z00daxbittorrent here
21:43.13z00daxwethrin: its a presentation video that one of my Prof's from Univ did a few days back
21:43.38wethrinGet it digg'ed, or /.ed
21:43.54JosefAssadthere's an idea.
21:44.34z00daxnot sure if many people would be interested in 'apples as operational research tools'
21:44.51z00daxOR was one of my majors in college
21:44.53Dominicclive-h: I use ktorrent too, but I find it really unstable.  Seems to crash after 8 hours or more.  I get back and find a KDE crash screen.
21:45.17z00daxboudiccas: there is a bug report for that KDM thing - i shall get it fixed and do an update during the next week
21:48.07clive-hI probably haven't torrented anything that would break ktorrent
21:49.32clive-hF7 torrents weren't usable
21:50.50clive-hBut still I really like Fedora 7]
22:00.20wethrinI gave up on Redhat a long time ago
22:01.42kjalilwethrin: debian now?
22:02.03kjalilfedora 7 *is* nice though, i like it
22:02.15wethrinI still feel more a Slackware person, if I have to use Linux
22:02.24clive-hIt's a good release
22:02.27wethrinAlthough my current Linux machines are all running Debian...
22:02.54kjalilwethrin: i also want to get back to slackware, but how do you upgrade a slackware install? do you have to reinstall?
22:02.56clive-hSlackware's package management is really just tar
22:03.12wethrinYou can do natty things with slapt-get now
22:03.31JosefAssadslapt-get resolves dependencies, I hear. But does it fetch them too and all?
22:03.34kjalilwethrin: natty is = nifty??
22:03.50wethrinsomething along those lines
22:04.03JosefAssadokay
22:04.04wethrinBut a bit more hacky than nifty would imply
22:04.09JosefAssadfirst distro I ever tried was in fact slackware, around 97 or so
22:04.17clive-hI abandoned slackware when they were slow to move from a.out to elf
22:04.40kjalilJosefAssad: yeah, i guess most of us. my first was Yggdrasil Linux, I think that was based on slackware
22:04.43wethrinWasn't that when Pat was very ill?
22:04.57wethrinNo, Ygg wasn't
22:04.57JosefAssadVolkerdink's illness is more recent, IIRC
22:05.05clive-hMy first linuz was SLS on floppy
22:05.20clive-hthen yggdrasil on cd
22:05.28kjalilwethrin: hmm, so what was it based on then? custom?
22:05.33JosefAssadold geezers!
22:05.48wethrinDidn't Ygg stem off SLS?
22:05.56clive-hno
22:06.02wethrinAs did SUSE, and slightly Slackware
22:06.07kjalilwethrin: yeah i think so
22:06.09z00daxdebian might be a half decent distro if it wasen bogg'd down by politics.
22:06.16clive-hthere was mcc too around that time
22:06.38wethrinMCC's been around for over 100 years
22:06.49z00daxheh
22:07.10kjalilthe only way for me to get linux was to buy a *thick* book with a CD in it. the book was basically man pages printed out :)
22:07.15clive-hAhhh
22:07.19clive-hThat book
22:07.31kjalilclive-h: yeah, green book
22:07.31clive-hYellow and black??
22:07.35clive-hoh
22:07.36kjaliloops
22:07.44z00daxmy first linux install was slackware, based on a 1.0.x kernel iirc
22:07.47kjalili wish i could find it again
22:07.59z00daxand then i switched to os/2 since it actually worked
22:08.03clive-h0.99 here
22:08.09z00daxdidnt come back to linux till 1.2.3 was out
22:08.11kjalilz00dax: ignore the politics, i'm typing this on debian right now
22:08.34clive-hI recall waiting for the kernel to get SLIP
22:08.39z00daxkjalil: i do ignore debian politics completely - i dont use it :)
22:08.53kjalilz00dax: lol. what are you using now then?
22:08.58clive-hso I could use linux on line
22:09.05z00daxfor me and what i do - no distro is going to be an option till they can produce a redhat-rawhide varient that actually works
22:09.20z00daxkjalil: CentOS on all my production machines, rawhide on my workstation and laptop
22:09.26kjalilz00dax: i get confused with redhat. what is rawhide exactly
22:09.40z00daxrawhide is the nightly build
22:09.44clive-hupstream redhat
22:10.14kjalilz00dax: so RHEL is based off Fedora, and CentOS is based off RHEL. so how does rawhide fit in?
22:10.24z00daxkjalil: it doesnt
22:10.47kjalilz00dax: where can I *get* it to install it on this machine for example
22:10.50z00daxand rhel isnt really based off Fedora either - Fedora is a different setup completely, rhel takes some bits of it
22:11.33z00daxkjalil: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os/images/boot.iso
22:11.47kjalilz00dax: btw, i'm torrenting the CentOS 5 DVD iso right now :) at 12K down
22:11.48z00daxthe -Development stream is Rawhide
22:12.17z00dax12k ?? what speed is your link ?
22:12.18clive-hI must look at centos 5 some time
22:12.23wethrinGah. Solaris is even slower to install than RedHat!
22:12.49clive-hsolaris is slow to even boot the kernel
22:12.54kjalilz00dax: it's just 8Mbps down, I don't know why it won't speed up. I'm using bittorrent and ports are forwarded correctly
22:13.17wethrinsolaris was the newest OS I had in the house
22:13.21z00daxkjalil: what Arch ? and is that ?
22:13.31wethrinkjalil: What upload rate?
22:13.36clive-hi'm impressed with Fedora 7
22:13.50clive-hit installed quick enough
22:13.55z00daxclive-h: the 7k apps in the repo's help :)
22:14.04wethrinIf it saturates the upload link, downloads get *really* slow
22:14.23clive-hI set the repos up immediately
22:14.25JosefAssadI actually _used_ LFS for a few months back around 2000
22:14.29z00daxjust turn off uploading, the share'd b/w on the C-5/i386 DVD is at 800MB/sec
22:14.44z00daxits like 1200MB/sec on the x8664 one
22:14.54kjalilwethrin: 2-4 K? let me check
22:15.57wethrinJosefAssad: Then you found you had better things to do?
22:15.57clive-hThis is the first time I've done 64 bit at home
22:15.57JosefAssadwethrin: then I got my first job, yes
22:15.57kjalilwethrin: ok, 29K down, 1K or so up
22:15.57wethrinHm. Not the upload, then
22:15.58z00daxnetwork congesstion somewhere else perhaps
22:15.59z00daxbtw, kernel.org has the DVD's - why not just ftp or rsync them down ?
22:16.38kjalilz00dax: yeah i keep giving bittorrent a chance, but it's always too slow for me
22:17.02kjalilz00dax: i d/led fedora 7 directly 2 days ago, gave up on bittorrent
22:17.31wethring'night all
22:17.50clive-hI downloadd fedora 7 directly too torrent was very slow
22:18.10z00daxwethrin: nite
22:18.35z00daxwe have a bunch of machines on 100mbps links doing nothing else, exept torrents...
22:19.05z00daxkjalil: btw, I've just started a torrent here, getting a lot of speed
22:19.05kjalilwethrin: nite
22:19.07z00dax<PROTECTED>
22:19.41kjalilz00dax: hmm, what is wrong here then? ISP slowing me down?
22:19.50kjalilor should i not use bittorrent?
22:20.00kjalilI mean should i use ktorrent or azureus
22:20.02z00dax|    
22:20.17z00daxhumm i m using bittorrent
22:20.30kjalilz00dax: i'm using btdownloadcurses
22:20.44z00daxlaunchmany-curses here
22:23.00kjalilz00dax: ok i'm getting 30K down now
22:23.16kjalili'll leave it overnight
22:24.52rhowekjalil: Are you behind NAT or a packet filter?
22:25.10rhowekjalil: Make sure that you can receive incoming connections to your bittorrent client if you want to get the best speeds
22:25.44rhoweDamn Symantec liveupdate process has accrued 140 hours CPU time!
22:28.17kjalilrhowe: AFAIK i have forwarded the ports correctly. is there an explicit way to check this?
22:28.38kjalilrhowe: the uploads do seem to be happening, although slowly
22:32.19kjalilbbl
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22:41.40z00daxwhats a cheap and cheerful way of getting video from a machine to the TV ?
22:41.51z00daxI seem to only have scart and the usual Aerial inputs into the TV
22:41.54z00daxno s-video
22:42.41z00daxmachine = computer, ofcourse
22:45.47rhoweYou might find the graphics card can output something which will be picked up off the scart connector
22:45.54rhoweSCART carries s-video and composite video, AFAIK
22:46.43z00daxi dont have a grfx card at the moment, for the machine - so whats should i get ?
22:47.26rhowedunno really
22:47.53rhoweI guess the nvidia binary driver will be able to drive all the tvout stuff on nvidia kit
22:48.07rhoweother chips might be a bit more patchy
22:48.11z00daxhttp://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/116327/rb/28362037546
22:48.13rhowematrox is OK, I think
22:48.29z00daxor http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/104734/rb/28362037546
22:48.30rhowebut my most modern card is a G450, so I'm no authority, and I've never done TV out
22:48.37z00daxatleast is a 62xx
22:49.03z00daxhumm... my most modern grfx is whats on my laptops, ati x700 and an intel 945something
22:50.03z00daxhttp://image.ebuyer.com/UK/R0104734-03.jpg that seems to have a normal tv-aerial out thing
22:50.31clive-hI've been having issues with current xorg and intel graphics
22:51.37z00daxhumm i've been ok with my laptop so far, everything just works - including beryl and aiglx etc
22:52.03clive-hi'm hoping the laptop will work
22:52.42clive-hBut the desktop with an intel chip is very iffy
22:54.44kjalilz00dax: you want to output from your video card to the tv? and tv only has scart inputs?
22:58.59rhoweSean of the dead on itv2
23:00.02z00daxkjalil: yes
23:00.38z00daxthere seem to be some s-video to scart converters - and i seem to have a video card with an s-video output. so might get one of these converters
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