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05:56.52 | morsing | rhowe_: Why are you ignoring me? |
06:00.06 | morsing | What's a molar? |
06:02.41 | morsing | http://pressthebuttons.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/rabbid.jpg |
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07:42.50 | morsing | shai! |
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07:47.16 | secretlondon | hi |
07:52.22 | morsing | secretlondon! |
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07:55.28 | morsing | secretlondon! |
07:55.39 | secretlondon | morsing! |
08:00.02 | Axel | good morning Caroline, good morning Henrik |
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08:09.09 | morsing | secretlondon! |
08:21.10 | secretlondo | stupid bug comment of the day (in my email box) |
08:21.16 | secretlondo | "So I was watching porno, and clicking on the pictures with the mouse. |
08:21.16 | secretlondo | I never touched the keyboard (I think), just the mouse. |
08:21.16 | secretlondo | Then suddenly the 'up' key got stuck, and it started to scroll up all the time." |
08:22.35 | morsing | secretlondon! |
08:22.42 | secretlondon | morsing! |
08:35.53 | morsing | How can I get SQLplus to handle spaces in a file name? |
08:42.16 | hali | in a spooled file? |
08:42.24 | morsing | Yes |
08:42.27 | morsing | I think |
08:43.57 | hali | it doesn't like spaces |
08:44.13 | morsing | She figured that out :) |
08:44.19 | hali | can't you rename after the sqlplus session? |
08:45.14 | morsing | Mebbe, will ask the DBA |
08:58.18 | hali | rpad('*',length(a),'*') can draw the bars |
08:58.40 | hali | you probably need do some calculations too to normalize it to fit the screen |
09:01.07 | hali | wrong window!, obviously |
09:04.02 | morsing | ? |
09:04.12 | morsing | I couldn't quite fit that in with my question... |
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09:05.02 | morsing | Leeds! |
09:05.15 | Leeds | yes |
09:33.34 | sabinef72 | Leeds ! |
09:33.37 | sabinef72 | morsing ! |
09:33.46 | Leeds | afternoon sabinef72 :-) |
09:34.02 | sabinef72 | what's up in HK ? |
09:34.16 | Leeds | the humidity |
09:34.34 | Leeds | my rent? |
09:35.01 | sabinef72 | all |
09:35.05 | Leeds | how about France? |
09:35.23 | morsing | sabinef72! |
09:35.24 | morsing | Julie! |
09:37.08 | sabinef72 | well it's spring but it's very cold |
09:37.12 | sabinef72 | and raining |
09:38.07 | Leeds | little bit of rain here, - but it was nice enough on Monday that I got sunburned going for a couple of hour walk |
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09:56.32 | morsing | flips_and_rails! |
09:56.44 | flips_and_rails | morsing! |
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10:10.06 | morsing | ElPenguin! |
10:11.08 | secretlondon | hi ElPenguin |
10:12.17 | ElPenguin | hi morsing, secretlondon |
10:12.32 | ElPenguin | I'm feeling awful, the onset of flu and i'm at work |
10:12.39 | morsing | Beer |
10:12.56 | ElPenguin | Are you a Doctor, perchance? |
10:13.12 | morsing | Yes - and I tell you beer is the thing |
10:13.25 | ElPenguin | absolutely |
10:13.39 | ElPenguin | for the minute, berocca and pg tips |
10:13.50 | morsing | Yuck, tea! |
10:13.56 | morsing | feels sick again |
10:15.38 | secretlondon | bah the graphics in ktuberling are a bit pants |
10:15.56 | secretlondon | reckons she's actually have to DRAW something |
10:16.46 | morsing | Investment? |
10:17.40 | secretlondon | I doubt my art skills will ever feed me |
10:18.03 | morsing | I thought you were buying up? |
10:18.40 | morsing | feeds secretlondon mushrooms for comfort |
10:20.22 | secretlondon | hopes they aren't poisonous |
10:20.42 | ElPenguin | feeds secretlondon homebrew whisky |
10:20.50 | secretlondon | that's better |
10:21.16 | secretlondon | unless that's equally poisonous |
10:21.45 | ElPenguin | Oi! I'm a good cook, and surely that means something for whisky? |
10:24.17 | secretlondon | depends how you've distilled it |
10:24.32 | ElPenguin | freezing |
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10:26.47 | morsing | curson! |
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10:46.29 | morsing | secretlondon! |
10:46.49 | secretlondo | laptop running memtest to see if that's why it keeps freezing |
10:47.06 | secretlondo | however desktop seems to have a non uk keyboard for some reason |
10:47.40 | morsing | Get a Mac |
10:48.57 | secretlondo | £ |
10:48.59 | secretlondo | yay |
10:49.03 | morsing | Get a job |
10:50.02 | secretlondo | you that bored, morsing? |
10:52.47 | dick_turpin | snigger |
10:52.48 | morsing | monster keeps freezing my Firefox |
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10:53.03 | morsing | secretlondon! |
10:54.35 | morsing | secretlondon! |
10:54.45 | secretlondon | morsing! |
11:00.52 | Axel | hey |
11:01.17 | Axel | quick favour please if i may.. can someone ping ns.brightercomputing.net and tell me the result (incl. IP)! thanks in advance =D |
11:02.21 | morsing | PING ns.brightercomputing.net (212.12.121.43) 56(84) bytes of data. |
11:02.21 | morsing | --- ns.brightercomputing.net ping statistics --- |
11:02.21 | morsing | 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4003ms |
11:02.43 | Axel | thanks |
11:03.06 | Axel | the bleeding thing is running.. why doesn't ping? grrrr |
11:03.17 | morsing | Get a proper colo |
11:04.10 | Axel | suggestion? ;-) |
11:04.36 | morsing | Exonetric |
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11:04.51 | Axel | hi stephanb2 |
11:04.56 | Axel | hmm |
11:05.02 | stephanb2 | hi |
11:05.13 | morsing | stephanb2! |
11:05.16 | morsing | Axel: Hmm? |
11:05.19 | Axel | hmmm |
11:05.44 | Axel | well, i've got a good deal for hosting my boxes in german (right around the corner from where i am working atm) |
11:06.11 | Axel | was looking at uk centres though for when i come back |
11:06.49 | morsing | Exonetric |
11:08.35 | Axel | checking* |
11:09.37 | ChoHag | I think Germany will be cheaper. |
11:10.09 | morsing | ChoHag: That's not his reqauirements |
11:10.09 | ChoHag | Oh. |
11:10.15 | morsing | He asked for UK hosting and hasn't said cheap anywhere |
11:10.22 | Axel | probably - but i prefer something that works reliably and cost effectively ;-) |
11:10.23 | morsing | And cheap = crappier |
11:10.28 | Axel | aye |
11:10.52 | morsing | Axel: I moved from Exonetric to Blue Linux which was half the price and deeply regret it |
11:11.03 | Axel | i will stay in germany as a second location and to serv german customers, but i still like a location closer to home |
11:11.06 | morsing | Exonetric and Telehouse is superb |
11:11.24 | morsing | If it's business srelated then £63/mth is peanuts |
11:11.40 | Axel | aye |
11:11.56 | Axel | well, getting back into it after a few years of sidelining it |
11:13.36 | Axel | exo sounds good and quite cheap ... apart from the bandwidth charges |
11:13.56 | morsing | Blue Linux charge more for Bandwidth and have lower limits |
11:15.39 | ChoHag | How does a conversation like this work: "Can I speak to X?" "No you have the wrong number" "What number did I dial?" |
11:15.49 | ChoHag | X isn't here. Bugger off and redial. |
11:16.04 | morsing | ? |
11:16.09 | morsing | I'm hungry |
11:16.17 | Axel | lol |
11:16.18 | ChoHag | Not that I ever answer that, and when I got her to give the number she dialled it was totally different. |
11:16.53 | morsing | You've lost me again dear |
11:17.01 | ChoHag | That's fine. |
11:17.16 | morsing | Which part of that conversation is you? |
11:27.13 | morsing | Bye... |
11:27.24 | Axel | ahhh |
11:27.29 | Axel | i think i found my culprit |
11:27.35 | Axel | slaps his sysmonkey |
11:27.51 | Axel | grrr... squid... proxy... ARGH! |
11:28.02 | morsing | Beer |
11:28.05 | Axel | is going to be back in a jiffy |
11:29.13 | stephanb2 | lunch |
11:29.21 | Axel | enjoy |
11:29.25 | stephanb2 | tnx |
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11:36.08 | morsing | curson! |
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13:00.34 | secretlondon | my hardware hates me |
13:00.47 | secretlondon | went away, and desktop was back at gdm |
13:01.20 | secretlondon | laptop run memtest for 2 hours with no probs too |
13:02.18 | antiphase | We had an Opteron blow up the other day that now gets reported as a Celeron by the BIOS in question |
13:03.17 | secretlondon | I saw the screenshot |
13:03.23 | secretlondon | 0 Mhz celeron |
13:04.30 | morsing | secretlondon! |
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13:11.52 | Leeds | okay... either my x server or my window manager just crashed on me |
13:12.24 | secretlondon | I had similar earlier - went to the toilet and came back to gdm |
13:17.21 | Leeds | and... it was the X server |
13:19.25 | Leeds | it is a little old - a couple of years |
13:20.28 | morsing | Leeds! |
13:20.36 | morsing | kisses Leeds' nose |
13:27.39 | wethrin | declares Thursday's pub to be the Edgar Wallace, Temple |
13:27.51 | morsing | Am I invited? |
13:27.54 | wethrin | Sure |
13:28.00 | wethrin | Just about to send the mail out |
13:28.07 | morsing | Cool |
13:30.56 | wethrin | Sent |
14:03.24 | secretlondon | electrician turned up, only had one light (was supposed to fit two) so gone away again |
14:05.41 | bilarh | bilarh in da house |
14:06.24 | morsing | bilarh! |
14:06.29 | bilarh | ./acco |
14:06.38 | bilarh | damn back sacpe ca |
14:06.40 | bilarh | brb |
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14:08.16 | bilarh | weird, backspace doesn't work for me in screen anymore |
14:08.53 | morsing | Beer will sort it |
14:09.29 | Leeds | stty something |
14:10.16 | morsing | Leeds: nah, it's screen being weird |
14:11.11 | bilarh | leeds: tried that but it wouldn't do anything... not even ctrl-v backspace did anything |
14:11.56 | bilarh | i need to change banks |
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14:15.15 | bilarh | every time i go abroad they block my bloody card |
14:15.31 | bilarh | this time, i managed to buy two metro tickets at 2.80USD and a pair of jeans at 40 |
14:15.42 | bilarh | and then it was "computer says no"-time |
14:18.03 | Leeds | bilarh: your bank is messing up your backspace? |
14:18.22 | bilarh | no my card :( |
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14:18.52 | morsing | xteddy! |
14:20.38 | Leeds | my bank seems quite happy with the idea that I've emigrated, leaving only my parents' address behind |
14:20.58 | secretlondon | you still have a gdp account though, doesn't that cost you loads? |
14:21.08 | Leeds | gdp? |
14:21.17 | Leeds | gross domestic product? :-) |
14:21.33 | secretlondon | gbp |
14:21.40 | Leeds | just got a regular current account, it's in credit, no fees |
14:21.49 | secretlondon | puts the kettle on for more tea |
14:21.52 | bilarh | apparently, my transactions are "suspect" |
14:22.08 | secretlondon | must the all the net porn |
14:22.29 | secretlondon | Leeds, but in a different currency from the one you get piad in? |
14:22.31 | bilarh | possibly, but i don't understand because i usually use the joint account card for stuff like that :( |
14:23.09 | Leeds | oh, no, I've got a HKD current account - and a GBP savings account, convenient for fee-free exchanges - here |
14:23.18 | Leeds | the UK account is used for my UK expenses |
14:24.29 | Leeds | I can move cash between my GBP and HKD accounts here at pretty much market rate, I can withdraw and deposit GBP cash at my bank with no fees, etc. |
14:24.36 | secretlondon | okay cool |
14:24.45 | Leeds | it's pretty good, actually |
14:25.24 | Leeds | I opened the GBP account when I wanted to transfer a bunch of cash from the UK - turned out the cheapest and easiest way was to bring a wad of notes with me on the plane and deposit them directly here |
14:25.35 | secretlondon | yeah, my bank charged a set fee for currency transactions last time I looked, which meant that I was using paypal for small amounts as that only charges a % |
14:26.48 | Leeds | my bank also charges £1 per non-UK transaction on my debit card |
14:27.35 | Leeds | that's LloydsTSB |
14:29.12 | secretlondon | i've forgotten what it was, but it certainly seemed cheaper to keep a small usd balance in paypal last time I needed to |
14:30.15 | secretlondon | notes that memtest still has no errors |
14:30.57 | Leeds | it's pretty common in HK for people to publish their account numbers for direct payment - for events, or even for companies taking bookings |
14:31.22 | Leeds | still shocks me a bit... |
14:31.52 | secretlondon | all the job sites I've signed up have warnings "Don't submit your bank details to an agency over the net" |
14:32.00 | secretlondon | presumably there have been some issues |
14:32.37 | Leeds | it does seem that publishing your account number online should be an obvious security risk |
14:35.25 | bilarh | didn't jeremy clarkson do just that and then someone signed him up to donate 500 quid a month to greenpeace or something? :) |
14:36.24 | secretlondon | yeah and that totally served him right |
14:39.07 | bilarh | yep |
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14:39.14 | morsing | boudicca! |
14:57.07 | morsing | boudiccas! |
15:03.36 | secretlondon | wikimedia commons has at least two photos of nose picking |
15:03.45 | secretlondon | is looking for eyes and noses |
15:05.55 | Leeds | is looking for en.wikipedia.org to respond |
15:07.34 | Leeds | secretlondon: can you kick it for me? :-) |
15:08.02 | secretlondon | i don't have the permissions, and anyway I'm doing more free software stuff these days |
15:09.21 | Leeds | well you're no bloody use then... |
15:10.29 | secretlondon | agrees |
15:10.29 | boudiccas | morsing! |
15:15.45 | Leeds | secretlondon: thanks, it's alive again |
15:16.07 | secretlondon | electrician here |
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15:25.08 | morsing | boudiccas! |
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15:32.53 | morsing | blight! |
15:39.27 | morsing | How do I do DIV in Excel? |
15:40.12 | antiphase | / |
15:40.20 | antiphase | What does DIV do? |
15:41.01 | secretlondon | he means div like mod I think |
15:41.03 | morsing | INT / |
15:41.06 | secretlondon | not . |
15:41.18 | morsing | Yeah, integer rounded down |
15:42.02 | antiphase | truncation then, or floor |
15:42.10 | morsing | There's a ROUNDDOWN |
15:42.19 | morsing | Ahh... Floor |
15:42.36 | morsing | Thanks |
15:43.02 | secretlondon | hmm. electrician hasn't turned off any of the power and has just fitted new light |
15:43.26 | morsing | Ermm... No, FLOOR is not DIV. Not what I'm after |
15:43.50 | antiphase | It will do the rounding for you, you still have to divide :P |
15:44.15 | antiphase | \ is sometimes integer division |
15:44.24 | morsing | Right, pretty dumb |
15:44.29 | secretlondon | back slash, weird |
15:44.51 | morsing | My function now is |
15:44.55 | morsing | =FLOOR(C17,42)/42 |
15:45.36 | antiphase | Google says trunc(C17/42) |
15:45.49 | antiphase | Or whatever you meant written out right |
15:45.52 | antiphase | spazzes |
15:45.55 | morsing | Cool, thanks. Worked |
15:46.58 | secretlondon | evince is a pile of wank and won't print |
15:47.16 | secretlondon | printer will print test page |
15:47.53 | antiphase | pdf2ps | lpr |
15:47.57 | antiphase | lols |
15:52.26 | secretlondon | tries acroread |
15:52.42 | secretlondon | 22Meg wtf |
15:52.51 | secretlondon | 23 meg even |
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15:57.00 | secretlondon | boudiccas, leccy? |
15:57.11 | secretlondon | bugs reports the claim that firefox 3 is lightweight |
15:57.41 | boudiccas | secretlondon; yes, only the fourth today |
15:57.48 | secretlondon | ffs |
15:57.49 | Leeds | light*er*weight? |
15:58.02 | secretlondon | than what, though? |
15:58.27 | Leeds | FF2? |
15:58.33 | secretlondon | firefox 3 - "lightweight web browser based on Mozilla" |
15:58.37 | secretlondon | its much heavier than ff2 |
15:58.44 | secretlondon | ff2 has the same tagline |
15:59.07 | Leeds | B4? |
15:59.28 | secretlondon | tis lies |
16:01.17 | Leeds | O RLY? |
16:07.34 | secretlondon | two nice new shiny kitchen lights |
16:07.46 | secretlondon | points out she doesn't know what B4 is |
16:08.03 | secretlondon | all I know is that FF3 has a *very* lardy arse |
16:09.04 | Leeds | beta4, the latest 'release' |
16:09.23 | secretlondon | ah beta 4 is the thing i'm refrring to |
16:09.36 | secretlondon | as that what ubuntu has as ff3 |
16:11.28 | Leeds | shouldn't be bigger than FF2 |
16:11.36 | Leeds | what metric are you using? |
16:12.31 | secretlondon | using them both on my 1200 mhz laptop |
16:12.50 | Leeds | so are you saying it's bigger or slower? |
16:12.54 | secretlondon | slower |
16:13.01 | Leeds | ah |
16:13.26 | Leeds | then it's worth reporting, yes |
16:13.27 | antiphase | Modern Linux + 1200MHz is a recipe for fail, I'm sad to suspect |
16:13.34 | secretlondon | nah it's fine |
16:13.50 | secretlondon | runs gnome okay, don't need to use xfce |
16:14.59 | secretlondon | electrician has had van clamped |
16:15.17 | Leeds | yay |
16:15.18 | secretlondon | he's trying to find a mate with a sngle grinder.. |
16:15.23 | secretlondon | angle |
16:15.52 | Leeds | it's quite nice to see blokes on the MTR (tube) here with PCCW (telco) uniforms on, carrying toolboxes... |
16:17.48 | secretlondon | yeah |
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16:24.52 | secretlondon | he's rung round all his mates to see who's nearest to cut the clamp off |
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16:26.13 | secretlondon | hi etorix |
16:26.31 | etorix | sup |
16:27.07 | secretlondon | got new kitchen lights, electrician been clamped |
16:28.35 | etorix | ha ha |
16:28.54 | secretlondon | he's been ringing round his mates to find an angle grinder |
16:29.18 | etorix | yeah, they work |
16:29.26 | etorix | well, they did |
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17:30.28 | secretlondon | wheel clamps in the US are apparently called Denver Boots.. |
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21:32.20 | secretlondon | night |
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21:49.45 | morsing | IAmAI! |
21:56.39 | IAmAI | Hello |
21:56.57 | IAmAI | morsing: Is there social tomorrow night |
21:56.59 | IAmAI | ? |
21:59.31 | morsing | No |
21:59.35 | morsing | Oh wait |
21:59.36 | morsing | Yes |
21:59.39 | morsing | Dan's thing |
21:59.39 | IAmAI | LOL |
21:59.43 | morsing | ? |
21:59.56 | IAmAI | Dan's thing? |
22:02.04 | IAmAI | You going? |
22:18.13 | morsing | No, too far away |
22:21.14 | IAmAI | Where is it then? |
22:24.23 | morsing | Not sure... Read the email? |
22:27.17 | IAmAI | I should do really =D |
22:28.06 | IAmAI | Did I ask you if you had a good Easter? |
22:30.12 | morsing | I don't believe so :) |
22:33.37 | IAmAI | So... |
22:33.58 | morsing | Yes, I had a very nice Easter, tank-you :_) You? |
22:34.02 | morsing | :-) |
22:34.09 | morsing | Thank-you - argg |
22:38.32 | IAmAI | LOL |
22:38.45 | IAmAI | I had a nice Easter, too thanks. |
22:38.50 | IAmAI | Took my parents out. |
22:39.07 | morsing | With a riffle? |
22:39.28 | IAmAI | Nope. |
22:40.16 | morsing | :) |
22:40.22 | morsing | Sorry... |
22:41.10 | IAmAI | LOL |
22:41.22 | IAmAI | I took them to a restaurant. |
22:41.35 | IAmAI | To celebrate my new job |
22:42.39 | morsing | Coo! What job is that? |
22:43.11 | IAmAI | QA Engineer. |
22:46.35 | morsing | Cool |
22:46.41 | morsing | Boing? |
22:46.48 | IAmAI | Boin? |
22:46.51 | IAmAI | +g |
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