IRC log for #gllug on 20080123

00:05.17wethrinHumf. I would've pointed him at #madwifi as probably being more appropriate
00:05.46Discordianheh
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07:49.31pdrleeds: seeya soon!  i'll give you a call over the weekend
07:50.18Leedsmust remember to tell him to thank his mum and congratulate her...
07:52.32etorixhttp://files.myopera.com/zsoti/albums/280551/sataaa.jpg
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09:12.12secretlondonhi
09:14.53bilarhoh man, bring back the polish canteen people
09:15.05bilarhit's taking for*ever* getting anything in the canteen now
09:15.43bilarhat least the polish know how to add up money in their heads and they know how to make a good latte, quickly
09:16.34Leedsso who do they have now?
09:16.46bilarhsome english people
09:17.12bilarhactually, the ye olde english lady is ok, but some of the other folks ... the mind boggles
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09:36.46halihow annoying
09:36.52haliat least you have a canteen
09:37.02haliwe have a sandwich man :/
09:37.12halii never buy anything from him though, looks manky
09:37.20halii go across the street to sylvios
09:41.10bilarhat least you have somethign decent across the streeet
09:41.19bilarhacross the street from here is a ten minute walk to the nearest caf
09:41.41bilarhwhen I was a kid, we would have been happy to live in a lake!
09:45.12halithat was one of the best things about working in soho
09:45.18hali*everything* was across the street :-)
09:45.21bilarhyeah defeinitely
09:45.34bilarhi miss soho
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13:04.09dick_turpinibot: poke bilarh
13:04.10ibotACTION cuts down a small tree, sneaks up behind bilarh, pokes bilarh repeatedly, hilarity ensues.
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13:19.00boudiccasibot: poke dick_turpin
13:19.01ibotACTION cuts down a small tree, sneaks up behind dick_turpin, pokes dick_turpin repeatedly, hilarity ensues.
13:19.36boudiccasah, i wondered if it was a random poking script
13:19.39dick_turpinboudiccas: Shouldn't that be the other way round? Oh crap I'm still married
13:19.40bilarhhehe
13:19.46boudiccaslol
13:20.09dick_turpinbilarh: You Nordic hunk
13:20.23bilarhdick_turpin: indeed *beams and gleams*
13:20.35dick_turpinHunk of lard
13:20.52bilarhi prefer the term 'cuddly and soft'
13:20.57dick_turpinwobble bottom :-)
13:21.25bilarhyou must have confused me with your mum
13:21.56bilarhi am so knackered today
13:21.59bilarhturn me into glue
13:22.11bilarhthis is my third week working straigh
13:22.12bilarht
13:22.14bilarhwith no breaks
13:22.21bilarhi want my weekend, damnit
13:23.23dick_turpinyou'd only spend it chasing pretty young things when you should be at home with the misses
13:23.25halijust had a weekend
13:23.28halienjoy work while it lasts
13:23.39bilarhhali: aren't we positive today? :)
13:23.49bilarhhali: stock market jitters causing concern at work?
13:23.58dick_turpinboudiccas: You working yet? (I've lost track of whats going on)
13:24.00halibilarh: little bit, doesn't affect us massivly
13:24.12bilarhi like work, don't get me wrong, but it's nice to have a weekend every once in a while :)
13:24.16halibilarh: fund raising on the bond market was just down 35%  :)
13:24.42halimost clients pay a fixed subscription fee anyway, not based on deals
13:25.53halithere is some concern in the US though, we have a large muni bond system where the clients pay per deal.. that could be a problem
13:26.14haliand i think we're even joint issuer on those deals
13:33.29dick_turpinI love the idea the government has come up with for Northen Rock
13:33.41dick_turpinUse our tax money to bail them out
13:34.20dick_turpinThen get us to buy bonds with money have been taxed on to buy into a company
13:34.25dick_turpinpropped up with our tax money in the 1st place
13:39.08bilarhdick_turpin: the government is a fucking shambles at the moment
13:39.19bilarhi was glad to be rid of tony blair, but now i want him back
13:39.54bilarhi loved the 0.75% rate cut yesterday as well, fucking mongs
13:40.35bilarh"hmm, people have got into problems and can't spend money because they've borrowed too much, what do we do?" "lower the cost of borrowing so they can borrow more"
13:44.11dick_turpinbilarh: I don't think its about that although you're probably right, I think they are shitting themselves people won't be able to pay the credit card bills
13:45.42haliwell banks shouldn't give people massive overdrafts and credits
13:45.56haliif banks loose out on that they have themselves to blame
13:47.16dick_turpinhali: Now that I agree with, I had an argument with my sister in-law over that a few years back
13:48.00dick_turpinWhen people are in debt IMO its the banks fault not thiers, true they should have the sense to spend/borrow
13:48.06halipeople can't be trusted, simple as that, i always assume the worst :)
13:48.12haliand if things turn out better, cool
13:49.37dick_turpinwithin thier means but when you get "Here have some money your a gold customer" well what you gonna do?
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13:50.56dick_turpinzmey_g: Hi Ya
13:51.19zmey_g:) dick_turpin, hi
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13:51.43bilarhdick_turpin: i'm all for individual responsibility, so if someone wants to borrow 25k on a credit card, by all means do it, but don't come whinging if you can't pay it off
13:52.19zmey_gdick_turpin: i had my interview yesterday.
13:53.23dick_turpinbilarh: Thats slightly unfair, generally most people can afford it at the time but factors in banks going tits up etc?
13:53.43dick_turpinat the time but who factors
13:53.57dick_turpinzmey_g: Did you get it?
13:54.14bilarhdick_turpin: maybe i'm just not as patronizing as you ;-)
13:54.20zmey_git was good. hopefully i will get the job at the end pf the week
13:56.37dick_turpinbilarh: FO I'm serious I have a lone which I can/could well afford the repayments have gone up every month for the past 5 months now
13:56.48dick_turpinThe last hike was £5.00
13:57.13dick_turpinzmey_g: So you'll have loads od dosh then?
13:57.21dick_turpinof
13:57.53dick_turpinloan
13:58.05dick_turpinbloody phone
13:58.25zmey_gdick_turpin: no. but it will be finally it position. my first btw.
13:59.53dick_turpinzmey_g: Back in 1784 when I hadmy first job @ EDF Mann Sugar Quay opp tower of London my wage was £150 a month
14:00.14dick_turpinI ask the bank to pay me it in £1.00 notes so I could show off
14:00.43dick_turpinThe Bank women was a little surprised and so was I seeing as my wallet wouldn't shut
14:02.40Discordian1784!
14:02.51DiscordianYou're old school
14:03.29etorixi got paid in guineas in 1784
14:03.49dick_turpinI was paid in groats actually
14:04.08zmey_gdick_turpin: back in 1784 my salary was paid with Lenin imprint at the back :)
14:04.41DiscordianHmmm
14:07.13zmey_gyes, and sickle and a hammer at the front of the note.
14:07.47DiscordianFunny that Lenin was born in 1870
14:08.19Paul_UKout of interest, anyone managed to get privoxy working with squid in transparent mode?
14:08.22zmey_gproper labor money...
14:08.40Paul_UKyes i tried #squid and will mail their list later
14:14.13halibilarh: what programming language was it you studied a few years back? at those open uni courses?
14:14.23halibilarh: similar to lisp or something
14:21.17bilarhhali: smalltalk, but it's not similar to lisp
14:25.35haliah yes
14:25.51haliwe where just talking about the recent raves against using java in colleges in the us
14:25.58halias it has too little maths in it
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16:31.20DiscordianTis quiet
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17:14.19nDJ_InsticTany1 around who has setup postfix,ldap + spamassin?
17:14.42nDJ_InsticTspamassassin
17:14.59DiscordianNot me , done sendmail + ldap + spamassassin
17:15.51nDJ_InsticTI need to set a flag in the ldap database to say yes or no to send to spamassassin
17:16.38antiphaseldapmodify HTH HAND
17:16.49DiscordianStraight forward enough
17:20.01nDJ_InsticTyeah should be - if I knew more about postfix - starts reading docs :)
17:20.34DiscordianNever touched postfix, I like sendmail
17:21.38nDJ_InsticTI am slowly getting there - having to use somebody elses setup ...
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19:08.03Discordianhi again
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22:59.44DiscordianRe
23:00.13z00dax<PROTECTED>
23:00.15z00dax<PROTECTED>
23:00.30z00daxI am trying to book tickets, and i keep getting that in my ticket section
23:00.32z00daxwhat does that mean ?
23:00.46z00daxdoes it mean that the tickets I am buying are for people who are 60yrs + ?
23:01.04DiscordianYes looks that way
23:01.14z00daxbut I didnt select that option anywhere
23:01.27z00daxthere isnt even an option for that on the eurostar.com website
23:01.31Discordianheh
23:02.58z00daxoh man
23:03.05z00daxwill need to call them in the morning
23:03.41DiscordianYou might ask em why a return is compulsory too
23:04.00z00daxi dont mind that, i do need to get back here :d
23:04.19DiscordianHeh
23:04.22z00daxbut the chances of me aging 31 years in 30 days is a bit slim
23:04.30DiscordianAye
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23:06.38iAlbertozhi
23:19.18z00daxhello
23:19.28Discordianecho
23:28.41Discordiangah I miss having a working network at home
23:30.03wethrinz00dax: You've not heard Stallman speak....
23:30.06wethrin(have you?)
23:33.04DiscordianHe voices one of the male voices on Festival
23:33.22wethrinOh dear
23:33.35DiscordianI used to greatly admire RMS
23:33.40wethrinecho THAT'S GNU SLASH LINUX OMGWTF | festival
23:34.07DiscordianThat was the issue that made me cease to like him
23:34.44DiscordianPresumbly he thinks OpenSolaris is GNU/OpenSolaris
23:35.42wethrinHe has some good ideas, and good point. But wrapped up in so much bullshit, it's hard to take him seriously
23:35.52DiscordianIf the Hurd had actually existed I'd never have gone the linux route
23:36.23wethrinThe Hurd suffers from Computer Science-itis
23:36.28DiscordianBut 20 years on it's still vapid
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23:36.39wethrinWhile in theory it's a very very neat design, and all that....
23:36.43wethrin...it's just not practical
23:36.52DiscordianQuite so
23:36.54wethrinWhere's Linux, which is quite a shit design, took off because it worked
23:37.02DiscordianIndeed
23:37.36DiscordianI ran Microport SysV 2.3 on my AT
23:37.44DiscordianThen Coherent
23:38.02Discordianwhich was rather strange
23:38.12wethrinCoherent....that was a Unix-like non-Unix system, wasn't it?
23:38.15wethrinLike Plan9
23:38.23DiscordianIt was unix like
23:38.30Discordiancommercial
23:38.40wethrinmmm
23:38.53DiscordianBut not derived from the unix/bsd sources
23:39.32wethrinAh, complete rewrite, then
23:39.41DiscordianYeah
23:40.14DiscordianBut fairly funky
23:40.58DiscordianI still have a Coherent manual inmy bookshelf
23:41.08DiscordianI have fond memories of it
23:41.23wethrinNever played with it, so I can't remember why it sticks in my brain
23:41.45Discordianmark Williams company made it
23:42.04DiscordianThey did a nice C compiler on the Amiga too
23:43.04wethrinAhhhhh.....did Coherent run on the Amiga too?
23:43.12DiscordianNo
23:43.45DiscordianThe only unix on the lower Amigas was Minix
23:44.20DiscordianOne later model was the reference platform, for SVR4.2
23:44.57wethrinHm. I'm still trying to think of what context I have come across Coherent. I know it wasn't just an idle pass through the Unix history
23:47.28DiscordianMost people know not of Coherent
23:49.34DiscordianMWC C ran on the ST too
23:50.43Discordianwiki suggests Coherent ran on PDP-11s too
23:52.13DiscordianAnd whatever the CBM 900 was
23:52.44wethrinSome Commodore, I assume
23:53.08DiscordianAye

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