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10:07.32Leedsnearly time for yet another of my patented maybe-dates
10:10.06Leedsexcept not quite so nearly, because she was calling to postpone by half an hour as I was typing that...
10:14.46Leedsand in less happy news, Marcel Marceau died
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10:50.19z00daxwhats a decent slide making / slide delivery app on linux ? is Oo Impress the best there is ?
10:58.04LeedsI've been known to use magicpoint
10:59.39Leedsbut yeah, I'd tend to use OO.o Impress nowadays
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11:10.06Leedsbusy here today...
11:10.11Leedshow did it go yesterday?
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13:15.02rhowez00dax: Google just launched a web presentation thingy, didn't they?
13:15.08rhowez00dax: Might be worth a look
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13:18.28niv_one_threehi all
13:19.16niv_one_threein case I want to use a script to use a second ethernet card, when the prime is OO - how should I ping?
13:19.19niv_one_threegoogle?
13:19.38niv_one_threeactually download some file?
13:21.18antiphaseWhat do you mean, in English? ;)
13:30.23z00daxrhowe: yes, good idea
13:35.52z00daxrhowe: looks like it targets a differnet domain completely
13:39.57niv_one_threehi anti
13:40.19niv_one_threeI want to ping a wan address from eth0
13:41.01niv_one_threeif I get a response - all is well. if not change the default route to wlan0 and test ping to wan from there
13:41.09niv_one_threemakes any sense now?
13:45.21antiphaseYes, but no.
13:45.33antiphaseWhy would you ever want to do something crazy like that? :)
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13:58.47niv_one_threeok, the two nic casses the wan
13:58.56niv_one_threeone one is active at any time
13:59.10niv_one_threeif one fials - the other will be used
13:59.17niv_one_threequestions?
14:02.14antiphaseWell, people that needed redundant connectivity spent some time devising clever routing protocols to deal with this situation
14:02.39rhoweothers just used ifscheme or networkmanager, I think
14:02.53niv_one_threewhat is the simplest way ? script?
14:03.19niv_one_three* niv googling ifscheme
14:03.54rhoweifscheme might be a Debianism
14:04.07niv_one_threeouch - its debian!
14:05.12niv_one_threenetworkmanager is gentoo freindly...
14:46.18niv_one_threeok, in order to read about this I need a name.
14:46.45niv_one_threehow do you call it when the server uses two nic each at a time to connect to the WAN?
14:46.55Leedsbonding or multipath
14:47.05niv_one_threeleeds !
14:47.08niv_one_threehi mate
14:47.17niv_one_threeshetikatev
14:47.24niv_one_threeand be signed
14:47.33niv_one_threeoh well, too late I guess
14:47.39niv_one_threehappy new year then
14:47.48Leedsthanks anyway :-)
14:49.07niv_one_threeem.. ho good hits at gogle
14:49.43niv_one_threeany idea what is the simple way? for a newbie to multipath?
14:50.37Leedsit's not simple
14:50.58Leedsoh, wait - you're talking about failover, not bonding or multipath
14:53.24gw280I think I love git
15:06.51boudiccasgw280; strange taste you have, loving a git!
15:06.57gw280...
15:07.02gw280note the lack of an article.
15:07.32niv_one_threeyes leeds I am talking about  failover
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16:39.29goibhniurhowe: aren't you moving house next weekend too? I'm wondering if you might like to go halves on renting a van?
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16:53.54rhowegoibhniu: Hmm
16:54.26rhowegoibhniu: Potentially. We're looking to move all our stuff on Saturday, in the morning
16:56.27goibhniuyou're in east london too aren't you?
16:56.44goibhniuI've just been looking around on gumtree etc
16:57.00goibhniuit looks like about £50 to hire a van + man for 2 hours
16:57.10goibhniuor about £50 a day to rent a van
16:59.37goibhniukeep it in mind anyway
17:05.56rhoweI'm near the bricklayer's arms
17:05.58rhoweSE1 4UP
17:06.12rhowejunction at the end of of tower bridge road / old kent road / new kent road
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17:08.13goibhniuhmm .. that's only about 3.5 miles away ... we're moving from e8 4ae up the road (less than 2 miles) to e5 8aj
17:09.06goibhniuwe need to pick up a double bed from some people up the road too, I don't have their address yet
17:09.52goibhniuI'm sure we could move everything in one load
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21:00.57clive-hsorry I couldn't make the meet yesterday
21:02.16z00daxah never mind, next time then
21:02.39clive-hhome shopping delivery was 2 hours late
21:02.57z00daxbah
21:03.02z00daxi hate delivery people
21:03.24clive-hI was sitting waiting for 3 hours
21:03.44clive-hIf they'd been on time I could have come along
21:04.00clive-hGood meet?
21:04.34z00daxit was, while i was still there - had to leave just as the lightning talks were starting off
21:04.49clive-hahhh
21:05.57clive-hIt was too late to head for town when tesco finally arrived
21:22.15murbdo tesco still give compensation for late deliveries?
21:23.02halithe fuckers in acado charge for peak time delivery these days
21:26.15clive-hNo
21:26.34clive-hI was a tad annoyed
21:26.48clive-hi find ocado has a problem
21:27.10clive-hall the detailed descriptions say to be completed
21:27.36clive-hand I'm diabetic and allergic to some things
21:27.58clive-hSo I need to know what's in what I'm buying
21:27.58halithat sucks, they should fix that...
21:28.24halithey are quite good at stuff like that in the stores, they have quite a lot of gluten free stuff
21:28.31clive-hyes
21:28.51clive-hwaitrose and ocado are very expensive though
21:29.01halisome things are yes
21:29.24clive-hLike M&S they do nice food
21:29.54halii like m&s, but the problem with them is that you always have to go another store as well
21:30.05halisince they insist on their own brand for everything
21:30.23clive-hI had tesco crispy duck and pancakes for lunch today
21:30.35clive-hThat cost 2.99
21:30.41halinot ad
21:30.42halibad*
21:30.49clive-hfrom waitrose it'd be 4 quid
21:32.27clive-hEven worse it'd be 6.50 from the chinese takeway at the end of the road
21:32.49halibut the 6.50 takeaway is way tastier :)
21:32.49clive-hThough their's is much nicer
21:33.04clive-hTis
21:33.14clive-hBut I'm unemployed
21:33.20clive-hso needs must
21:33.27halihow's the job hunting going?
21:34.06clive-hI'm waiting on the outcome of the interview I did Wed
21:34.18clive-hsecond interview, first was phone
21:34.31clive-h5 candidates, 2 jobs
21:34.49clive-hIt might happen
21:34.54z00daxif you know who the other 4 are - maybe pay them a visit ?
21:35.03z00daxor have someone else do that for you, just so there is no direct connection with you
21:35.06halisend them a dead squirrel or something :)
21:35.13clive-hI'm hitting the age ceiling
21:35.22clive-hI'm 51
21:36.34clive-hpersonally I couldn't care less if my boss is younger than me
21:38.11clive-hIf nothing changes this week I'll dumb my CV down and look for clerical work
21:38.58halimust be crap IT jobs around though?
21:39.18clive-hI'm sure there are
21:39.23haliweird shift support jobs? sucks but better than doing non-IT stuff
21:39.44clive-hBut if I'm gonna earn 18K I might as well do something brainless
21:41.08clive-hlast time I was offered IT shift work it was as an operator
21:41.26clive-hCos they saw gandlake ICL VME stuff on CV
21:42.04clive-hI was a bloody sysadmin patching code doing that and writing SCL (ICL script stuff)
21:42.35clive-hI've worked in an office pushing paper
21:42.57clive-hbefore I got an IT job
21:43.57clive-hmaybe I'd take something at 25K#
21:45.12clive-hI work in IT cos it interests me but a crap job might not
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21:50.54clive-hSorry for the rant
21:51.36halino problem, i was afk applying face scrub
21:51.47murbit'll be up in google for prospective employers to find in no time!
21:52.04clive-hfine
21:52.23z00daxdunno
21:52.23halifreenode is
21:52.27clive-his it?
21:52.30clive-herrk
21:52.44z00daxibot: does the magic
21:53.21clive-hLovely
21:54.32clive-hI saw the traffic was logged
21:54.47clive-hI had no idea it was published on the web
21:55.23halishit, i have over 800megs of irssi logs :)
21:55.53halia lot is #centos though
21:56.24halipostgres is bigger actually.. over 150megs on it's own
21:56.45murbi have ibot on ignore i just wish it was mutual.
21:57.07clive-hI think I might choose to login from somewhere else then in future
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22:02.46BatChainPullerI suspect I can live with this
22:02.54z00dax[kbsingh@base irclogs]$ du -sh
22:02.54z00dax212M    .
22:03.07z00daxnot nearly as much as hali
22:03.15z00daxhali: btw, opinion on enterprisedb ?
22:03.22haliz00dax: good, not great
22:03.32haliz00dax: the whole "transparent oracle migration" is bollocks
22:03.35z00daxcompared with ?
22:03.41halioracle :)
22:03.55murbhttp://ibot.rikers.org/%23gllug/ # fwiw
22:04.15halivalue for money is pretty good though, if you can live with some code changes if you are migrating from oracle
22:04.20BatChainPullerEnterprisedb being the commercial postgres thing?
22:04.46haliyes
22:05.00BatChainPullermaxdb is derived from sapdb
22:05.08halipgsql with a few addons
22:05.28BatChainPullerwhich used to claim Oracle compatibility#
22:05.41BatChainPullersapdb was Adabas D before that
22:06.30halithe coolest pgsql project is greenplum imo
22:06.48halipretty cool dw appliance
22:06.49z00daxhali: also the most redundant
22:06.52BatChainPullerI'd much rather run Oracle
22:07.08z00daxgridsql / extnedb will do pretty much everything that greenplum does, for free
22:07.22z00daxwell, upto 16 nodes
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22:07.28z00daxi dont think xdb goes beyond that
22:07.59halishould be enough, thats still 384gb raw :)
22:08.05haliif one uses plain sun thumpers
22:08.13z00daxgb ?
22:08.28halitb*
22:08.28z00daxhumm are you guys using thumpers ? those are quite nice
22:08.36haliwe have one thumper
22:08.49z00daxwhere do you backup that to ?
22:08.51BatChainPullerAIO tablespaces?
22:10.40BatChainPulleri'd be inclined to mirror the db, break the mirror, do a quick copy to a NAS,resiliver tge mirror
22:10.45BatChainPullerresilver
22:10.54BatChainPullerand backup to tape
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22:19.05BatChainPullerOh 384Tb?
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22:49.47z00daxdid the gllug-fest meeting / talk take place then
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23:26.14Leedsz00dax: I assume so...
23:29.32Leedsoh, the fest
23:29.37BatChainPullerShame Expo got cancelled
23:30.21z00daxwell, i still think it would be good for london and for linux and open source here to have a more community based fest
23:30.38z00daxlinuxworld was getting too much biz-only - and big-names only
23:31.25BatChainPullertrue
23:32.54LeedsI'm not sure that the answer isn't to throw the combined GLLUG/Lonix/LUUG weight behind LRL
23:33.23BatChainPullerLRL?
23:33.49z00daxLeeds: yup - that would work, but the thing is someone is going to need to get everyone together and talk about it
23:34.02z00daxi dont know enough people from lonix, but might go along to the next meet

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