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04:41.34Leedswhy do I attract them?
04:41.37Leeds(12:38:53 PM) Irene: i am quite sexy, will you fall in love with me?
04:41.37Leeds(12:39:10 PM) Irene: hahaha.... just kidding
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09:39.10Copemoin
09:39.55Leedsshalom
09:40.26Cope:)
09:40.32Copeoooh
09:40.42CopeI had something to show you / ask you.
09:41.09Leedsyou did ping me a while back, but I guess I replied too late
09:42.09Copeyeah and i popped out :)
09:42.13Copeare you well?
09:42.24Copei really should make more pof an effort in this channel :)
09:42.57LeedsI am quite well... not amazingly happy at work, but otherwise life is going well enough... you?
09:43.34Copevery well indeed - work/business is going well, and all well at home
09:43.52Leedscool
09:45.37Copeso... i was chatting to chap at work who is excite about erlang
09:45.45Copeand showed me a quicksort algorithm using list comprehensions that looked like a cross between haskell and python
09:45.51Leedsah... erlang...
09:46.38Leedsdon't know much about it, other than being the esoteric-language-of-the-month
09:46.51Copei said i would throw something together in just python
09:46.53Copethat would be elegant, maitainable, and interesting
09:46.55Copei've missed something though
09:46.55Copei think the pivot is wrong
09:46.55Copeanyay
09:46.57Leedshmm... don't suppose you know if the lvm mirror support is a RHEL extension?
09:47.57Leedsmaybe just newer than the commonly-shipped version
09:48.54Leedsto be honest, I'm feeling my algorithm-playing days are falling behind me
09:53.48Copesorry on train, so cut out
09:54.13Copewhat do you want to do? mirror with lvm? install to lvm mirror?
09:54.42LeedsI'm being asked how to setup a mirror for a server we're running on a customer site
09:54.50LeedsI happen to like lvm for disk-fiddling...
09:56.58Copeyou can certainly do lvm mirroring with lvm2 on the latest centos 4 and 5 releases
09:58.01Leedsit's also related to my slightly odd preference for using software whose author I've met - and I give Mr. Kergon some credit for LVM :-)
09:59.26Leedshmm... I think the young lady I'm chatting with may have missed my reference to juggling, and is now rather worried that I've invited her to play with my balls in public
10:01.34Cope:)
10:01.41Leedsyeah... she missed the reference
10:02.43Leedsand I'm not sure if *I* should be worried that it didn't seem to faze her
10:09.42antiphaseShe'd have to find them first
10:11.07cpufreakchocolate salty balls
10:13.59Copegah, connectivity not so good today
10:14.38Copeleeds: lvcreate -L 50G -m1 -n gfslv vg0
10:14.47Copefor example
10:15.08Copeah he's gone
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11:59.52Ch0Hag_In the IT section, Employer: WORKERS BEER COMPANY
12:00.02Ch0Hag_... recruiting volunteer servers and managers to work in WBC bars
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13:32.16Ch0Hag_How do you say, in some polite way, HTML is a piece of piss and anyone who doesn't know it really doesn't deserve to call himself a geek?
13:34.50antiphaseJust say it, they won't believe you either way
13:34.51wethrinHTML may be a piece of piss, but *design* isn't
13:35.34Ch0Hag_It only stops being a piece of piss when IE tries to render it.
13:36.05Leedsthen it becomes a piece of shit?
13:36.41Ch0Hag_Hey don't denigrate my bodily excretions that way!
13:38.59Ch0Hag_Does anyone know [la]tex?
13:39.04boudiccasyes
13:39.29Ch0Hag_How can I say "don't put the line of text immediately above or below this paragraph break on its own"?
13:39.37Ch0Hag_(ie. around a page break)
13:39.51Ch0Hag_I have a title on one page with the body on the next.
13:39.55boudiccas<PROTECTED>
13:40.51dick_turpinIt'd be a lot easier if you created it in Front Page :-P
13:41.02Ch0Hag_Define 'easier'.
13:41.12boudiccaseasier maybe but it doesnt look as good
13:41.12dick_turpinFrames
13:41.22boudiccasframes are for newbies
13:41.46boudiccaslatex is the answer to most typographical layouts
13:43.55wethrin\newpage would forcfe a new page
13:44.10wethrinBut it should be more intelligent about \section{} positioning on a page
13:46.33dick_turpinI was deliberately throwing in a antagonistic hand grenade
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14:01.47goibhniuzmey_g: have you noticed radioinkorrekt is back in action?
14:02.08zmey_ggoibhniu: no
14:02.28zmey_g:) nice
14:03.26dick_turpingoibhniu: Have you seen my Gutsy Gibbon results on my website?
14:03.40goibhniunope
14:03.52goibhniuexecutive summary?
14:03.54zmey_ggoibhniu: i've been trying to figure out my dns-records, so a bit distracted from real world
14:04.05dick_turpingoibhniu: Well go and look you lazy sod
14:05.43dick_turpingoibhniu: 94.718 seconds over all boot time
14:06.14goibhniuouch ... same rig?
14:07.05dick_turpingoibhniu: Yep, I may have made a 10 second mistake on the power to grub but I'm pretty sure its correct
14:08.16dick_turpingoibhniu: That's a full update install of gutsy by the way with all the drivers ect
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14:09.11dick_turpinGrub
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14:09.11dick_turpin39.985
14:09.13dick_turpinGrub
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14:09.18dick_turpinLogin Screen
14:09.20dick_turpin
14:09.23dick_turpin25.339
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14:09.28dick_turpin.>
14:09.30dick_turpinDesktop
14:09.33dick_turpin
14:09.36dick_turpin29.494
14:09.45dick_turpinHm sorry about that, what a mess?
14:10.48boudiccasdick_turpin; why not use a pastebin???
14:11.13goibhniu40 seconds for grub to load a kernel?
14:11.19dick_turpinboudiccas: Don't know how
14:11.22zmey_ggoibhniu: if you use firefox there is a nice add-on theme for it, Metall Lion. Highly recommend it.
14:11.54dick_turpingoibhniu: Everything was fair and above board
14:12.17dick_turpinzmey_g: using irssi
14:12.56goibhniuzmey_g: cheers, sounds nice but I use vimperator so I don't really see any browser chrome
14:15.34goibhniudick_turpin: but is that what those figures mean ... 40 seconds before the kernel starts to load?
14:16.10goibhniudick_turpin: how long does vista take on that box?
14:16.31dick_turpingoibhniu: 40 seconds from pressing power button to grub comming up
14:17.09dick_turpin2goi26 seconds from grub to the login screen
14:17.37dick_turpingoibhniu: 26 seconds
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14:18.22dick_turpingoibhniu: and 30 seconds from login to usable desktop
14:18.30goibhniu40 seconds before you even have the option of choosing which kernel to boot? that sounds mental
14:18.30ArmandAfternoon. :)
14:20.18dick_turpingoibhniu: That might be the cool interrogation stuff they have
14:20.46goibhniudick_turpin: I did it ... I looked at your site! :)
14:21.20dick_turpingoibhniu: Is no longer a lazy sod
14:21.43goibhniususe takes 10 seconds to boot to gdm ... those numbers are boggling
14:21.57goibhniusorry ... 4 seconds!
14:22.19dick_turpingoibhniu: If I can get ArchLinux installed tonight I'll do a test for that
14:22.42dick_turpingoibhniu: I don't have Vista so cant compare that one
14:23.10goibhniudick_turpin: that's amazing ... I'm curious about arch now!
14:23.24goibhniuand suse wasn't suspended or anything?
14:23.27dick_turpingoibhniu: The only differences are the HDDS
14:24.13dick_turpingoibhniu: No All are cold booted, Full installs, full updates, all drivers ect.
14:26.03goibhniususe was a minimal install that you built up to a desktop system, right? or did you do another one?
14:26.13goibhniuthat's fascinating
14:26.45dick_turpingoibhniu: Yes, min but its fully fledged now I even have the kernel sources
14:26.46goibhniuthere could be a lot of waiting around for dhcp on boot I guess
14:27.35dick_turpingoibhniu: Hm, I generally don't see the output I can look at that if you like?
14:28.28dick_turpingoibhniu: Actually thats not relevant, gutsy was re-booted several times before I ran the time trial
14:29.48dick_turpingoibhniu: So the router would have been ready for th erequest anyway as it was not switched off
14:29.58dick_turpinthe request
14:30.24goibhniuI'm most amazed by suse's 4 second boot to X though
14:30.55dick_turpingoibhniu: All the times are correct on my kids lives
14:31.40goibhniuyeah ... but how does it do that?
14:32.57dick_turpingoibhniu: I timed each stage seprately e.g. timed it from power to grub then started over and timed from grub to login ect
14:33.58dick_turpingoibhniu: So that each time was taken from three boots
14:34.23goibhniubut you can hit your power button on suse and be on #gllug in ~50 seconds?
14:35.36dick_turpingoibhniu: I'd say 70 ish seconds
14:36.13goibhniuit would be good to take the full time in one go too I guess
14:36.34goibhniua lot of stuff would be happening while you log in
14:36.51goibhniubut still an interesting comparison
14:37.07dick_turpingoibhniu: If I enabled autologin and set grub to delay=0 then it'd be quicker I suppose
14:38.41dick_turpingoibhniu: But thats why I did three seperate times so it was fair, especially when gutsy boots straight to login
14:39.41dick_turpingoibhniu: Gutsy got about five reboots as I kept missing the power to grub time
14:40.18dick_turpingoibhniu: It shoots past grub straight to login
14:40.44dick_turpingoibhniu: Delay must be set to 1 second I suppose
14:41.37goibhniuwhen you say grub ... you mean a menu that lets you select the OS you want to boot right?
14:41.46dick_turpingoibhniu: Yes
14:42.17dick_turpingoibhniu: Perhaps I should use the term bootloader?
14:42.41goibhniuoh no, you're right ... just checking
14:46.20dick_turpingoibhniu: I was thinking of mailing Linux Outlaws but then I'd be just like that other self promoter
14:48.00goibhniuit might be good to contact distrowatch about it ... they probably have benchmarking guidelines too
14:48.49dick_turpingoibhniu: Its just a bit of personal fun
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14:56.02cpufreakanyone got any recommendations for some 10-12kVA UPSes?
14:56.10cpufreakideally some which are pretty compact would be good
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15:02.45jcookemanprivet vcem!
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15:11.05etorixAPC look ok
15:11.24etorixi keep meaning to get one
15:11.48cpufreakI was hoping someone had some real experience
15:13.04CliveLike IBM, you won't get fired for using APC
15:13.11etorixeveryone ive asked says get apc
15:13.18CliveThat's all I have experience with
15:13.40etorixhttp://www.microdirect.co.uk/productlister.aspx?n=2,10&n=77
15:17.03dick_turpincpufreak: APC have a pretty good configuration wizard/software thingy on their site which will tell you the one that's right for you
15:17.25cpufreakI want an alternative to APC though
15:17.32cpufreakas I need to tender the process out to 3 vendors.
15:17.44dick_turpincpufreak: Hang on I'll have a look
15:17.44cpufreakso just telling me what I know alreadyd oesn't help
15:19.36dick_turpincpufreak: http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/factfinder/search.asp?query=ups&sortProductName=desc
15:25.38cpufreakbut you've not used them
15:26.56dick_turpincpufreak: At the risk of another terse response, we use APC, I would recommend APC
15:36.52dick_turpinWow! Is this true ? http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-to-steve-ballmer/
15:42.15wethrinUm. It's business.
15:42.29wethrinAt least they're still paying for Mandriva, as promised.
15:44.59Ch0Hag_"If there’s anybody in the world that deserves the crapware that Microsoft sells it’s the Nigerians.
15:45.16Ch0Hag_Perhaps they heard that if they buy the systems with Microsoft now, as soon as the check clears the international banking system they would be able to get a refund of 96 bazillion dollars from Microsoft for helping them move the money out of the country."
15:46.02Armandhahaha
15:46.20dick_turpinwethrin: That's the strange bit, we have a customer in Nigeria which is basically a church
15:46.33wethrinaye...
15:46.41dick_turpinThey had a donation of £25.00 in a postal order
15:46.57dick_turpinWhen they took it to the local post office type place
15:47.09dick_turpinThey was asked to come back in a couple of weeks
15:47.22wethrinyay!
15:47.28dick_turpinAs they did not have enough money to change it
15:47.34Armandlol
15:47.58wethrinOh glods those comments are brainless
15:48.01CliveGah my google-fu keeps failing on me on this: LWN say there are Fedora 7 packages for pcc
15:48.10Clivei can't find em#
15:48.15wethrinppc?
15:48.20CliveNo
15:48.22Clivepcc
15:48.46CliveThe original System V C compiler
15:48.56Clivewhich is now mainline in OpenBSD
15:49.18antiphaseCan't you use `gcc --be-old-and-shit`
15:49.57CliveI don't see how that differs from the normal gcc behaviour
15:50.33Clivegcc generates stunningly sub-optimal code
15:50.49antiphaseHeh
15:52.15wethrinMm.....it's in the source tree, but not used as the main compiler
15:52.47CliveIt's probably gonna be the upcoming main compiler
15:52.58wethrinNot for a bit, I'd reckon
15:53.10wethrinNetBSD may jump first to it
15:53.23CliveI tend to avoid OpenBSD anyway
15:53.33CliveDue to the T* problem
15:53.39wethrinTheo's a nice guy IRL
15:53.47wethrinHe just doesn't stand for people being stupid
15:54.04CliveHe doesn't come across that way on the net
15:54.31wethrinNo, because he doesn't stand for people being idiots. Which is normally what he flames them about
15:55.08Clivethe fact that he pissed off Darren Reed says a lot
15:55.42wethrinDarren seems to have a similar attitude, though. As does Dan Bernstein
15:56.00CliveIndeed
15:56.20CliveThough I'm no fan of djb
15:56.45antiphaseMegalomaniacs to a man. Fuck them all :)
15:58.17wethrinBut pf is a far superior replacement to ipf
15:58.19CliveFreeBSD 7 looks vaguely interesting
15:59.23CliveThe latest ipf doesn't compile here, I thought it was supposed to work on 2.6 now
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17:03.16Ch0Hag_Is facebook anything other than a weird pyramid scheme?
17:03.35Ch0Hag_'You must join so that I can add you to my list so that you can see my pictures"
17:03.50jcookemanWhatever it is, it's sucking the users in
17:04.08jcookemanyou can hardly go out now without someone near you talking about facebook
17:04.09Ch0Hag_s/'/"/
17:04.10Ch0Hag_I think you missed an 'l' there.
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17:05.08Ch0Hag_Well I'm looking at their 'about' site, and it just looks like webspace.
17:05.12Ch0Hag_page
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17:33.29wethrinIt's not webspace
17:33.35wethrinYou want that, go to Myspace
17:33.56wethrinIt's social networking, yada, yada, done nicely
17:35.20antiphaseMyspace is populated by retarded chavs afaics, whereas facebook is populated by bigoted Daily Mail readers
17:36.59wethrinspeak for yourself :)
17:39.43goibhniumyspace seem to have done well in getting people to use it to promote their "art"
17:39.53wethrinYes, pity they can't design web pages
17:40.10goibhniuI don't think facebook is after that end of things at all
17:40.19wethrinNo, they're not
17:40.31wethrinyou can't change the look of your FB page
17:41.38goibhniuit's amazing people manage to change their myspace pages ... I set a page up with it before ... it's really poorly thought out
17:41.54antiphaseYou clearly have too many brain cells
17:42.02jcookemanmyspace is shit
17:42.25Armandnaff layouts, shit content.. and not a single thing worth looking at.
17:42.26jcookemanfacebook is smeared shit painted over
17:42.33goibhniulots of stuff like <div id="red-line-on-the-left">
17:42.41jcmlUKjcookeman: ... but myspace is worse
17:42.45wethrinjcookeman: rubbish
17:44.08jcookemanrubbish?
17:44.15jcookemanwhy yes, yes they are!
17:45.15antiphasehttp://www.myspace.com/anotherday_wasted
17:47.47jcookemanf00k!! I need eye bleach now!
17:48.14ArmandOnly thing of interest on mine was a pic of a large calibre rifle. :P
17:50.55z00daxso how many people coming to todays curry ?
17:50.59z00daxand Flag + Bell ?
17:51.38wethrinCURRY?
17:51.42wethrinI want curry :(
17:51.49ArmandDamnit..
17:51.50CliveI'm not in London
17:51.57Cliveelse I would
17:52.02Armand>_M
17:52.04Armandlol
17:52.05Armand>_<
17:52.14ArmandOk, who keeps moving my keys??
17:52.47Armand^_^
17:52.50antiphaseCurry 4tw, I'm going to the theatre to get some kulcha though
17:52.57wethrinmy keys never ,pbr
17:53.00wethrinbugger
17:53.08wethrinantiphase: Seeing anything interesting?
17:53.28antiphaseLes Misérables. Some chick thing I gather
17:53.36wethrinOh, it's supposed to be rather good
17:53.42wethrinNot quite a chick thing
17:53.57Clivevictor hugo innit
17:54.35wethrin'tis 'tis
17:54.46wethrinWell, near enough
17:55.04wethrinAnd it's the Schoenberg that could write music, rather than the one who wrote noise
17:55.16CliveWell victor Hugo meets the west end
17:55.34wethrinquite :)
17:55.35CliveI prefer the avant garde one
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22:05.05halibork bork
22:05.14ArmandQuack!
22:06.01wethrinbørk?
22:06.54ArmandCow goes "quack, quack", duck goes "Mooooo!"
22:08.19wethrinHave you been crossing the wires again?
22:09.12ArmandThink so.. I just can't align the nonsense factors with the discombobulator...
22:26.26halifor the love of god, don't cross the streams!!11one

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