IRC log for #gllug on 20080808

00:39.52*** join/#gllug Leeds (n=richardc@n058152140218.netvigator.com)
00:40.31morsingLeeds!
00:41.40Leedsmorsing: piss off
00:42.00morsingGrow up
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01:39.22morsingShermozle!
01:39.26ShermozleYo
01:50.04ShermozleHmmm.  Checking out the Jabber gateway.  Wish it would let you stay logged into an IRC network, rather than only to rooms.
01:58.35Leedshey Shermozle
01:58.48ShermozleHeya Richard.
01:59.15Leedshow's life down south?
01:59.58ShermozleLife goes on and all.  Can't wait for 17:00!
02:01.19Leedsit's only 1000 - I should head to the office pretty soon :-)
02:02.00Leedsoh, and I was going to mention - it's standard practice in HK to list per-volume prices on supermarket shelves
02:02.22ShermozleHow sensible.
02:02.42ShermozleThis country really doesn't get this competition thing -- which is why just about every industry has a monopoly or at best a duopoly.
02:05.10Leedsoh, HK is appalling for that sort of thing - many sectors are duopolies
02:06.33Leedse.g. there are two significant supermarket chains - which both happen to be part of big groups which also cover the two significant pharmacy chains, the significantly dominant convenience store chain (7-11), some prepared-food retailers, etc. etc.
02:07.42Leedsthere are two significant high-street electronics chains...
02:08.49Leedsanyway, /me -> office
02:16.47ShermozleThe thing they don't seem to understand is that the best thing a government can do is to reduce barriers to changing suppliers.
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06:17.06morsingLeeds!
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06:37.02gregjdoesn't get Today's garfield
06:37.24morsingBeer
06:38.07Leedsthere's a garfield today?
06:40.43gregjeveryday, the comic strip
06:41.57gregjhttp://garfield.com/comics/todayscomic.html
06:42.29gregjI get the actual image by email, so don't remember url, it has nasty flash on it, with music and all sorts of crap
06:44.48Leedsgregj: what don't you understand?
06:45.26gregjthat 'coffee bar humor' for instance
06:45.40gregjI just wokeup - so it might be it, but..
06:46.12Leedsit's a coffee bar - everybody is having the coffee, right?
06:46.26gregjsure, but different kinds of, etc, etc
06:46.34gregjnvm
06:47.45gregjmy bad I didn't got that bit, just finished my breakfast - time for some redbul
06:48.44Leedsif you're on redbull immediately after lunch, you might have bigger issues to deal with rather than not understanding garfield? :-)
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07:15.25gregjI am trying to not drink it, not before 1800 at least
07:39.00mindbendrmorning
07:39.12gregjis sleeping behind desk
07:45.08Leedsis half-asleep at his desk
07:45.15mindbendris wide awake
07:45.23mindbendrit's friday cmon.
07:45.32bilarhmorning folks
07:52.35phearlessgood morning..
08:30.58bilarhhrm, rsync doesn't deal particularly well with filenames with spaces, does it?
08:31.09bilarhmine seems to hang every time it encounters one
08:34.47cpufreaksure it does.
08:35.55morsingBeer
08:36.02cpufreakm3:~ andy$ rsync -av ./Desktop/stuff/old/Joost\ Transcoding\ Storage\ Infrastructure\ v4.0.pdf andy@192.168.50.129:tmp
08:36.02cpufreakPassword:
08:36.02cpufreakbuilding file list ... done
08:36.02cpufreakJoost Transcoding Storage Infrastructure v4.0.pdf
08:36.02cpufreaksent 1235726 bytes  received 40 bytes  494306.40 bytes/sec
08:36.04cpufreaktotal size is 1235420  speedup is 1.00
08:36.21bilarhhmm most annoying
08:36.43cpufreakyep
08:36.54bilarhah ffs
08:37.03cpufreakyou're an idiot?
08:37.07bilarhno
08:37.26bilarhyou are for thining i am
08:37.31bilarhmanually installing a later rsync version on one node without telling anyone ftw
08:43.47mindbendr/bin/nice -n 20 /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot -t daily 2>&1 | mail user@host.com -s"rSnapshot daily log - $(date)"
08:43.54mindbendrdoesn't send an email when it's in cron.daily
08:44.05mindbendrbut works fine when it's launched on the command line
08:44.06mindbendrany ideas?
08:44.27bilarhpath to mail?
08:44.31mindbendruh
08:52.51morsingBeer
08:57.24Provitodamn, authsmtp are down!
08:57.26Provitothat's a first
09:21.14bilarhmindbendr: did you get it working?
09:30.45gregjcan anyone tell me something about belfast. I will probably ave to live there for 3 months starting from September
09:31.13bilarhtry not to get bombed for one :P
09:31.15gregjanyone had a chance to spend some time there ? like , how much prices are lower/higher compared to say London, etc
09:31.19gregjbilarh: that one I know
09:31.49gregjbilarh: I wonder how would they plead, if I say I'm Polish, and Agnostic (-EBELIVEINGODNOT)
09:31.50bilarhthat's cool, though... i'd love go to ireland and see what it's like
09:32.02gregjthat's northern irleland
09:32.08bilarhyeah i know
09:32.23gregjsorry, just - I thought initialy that it is the Ireland
09:32.29gregjyou know, green lager, and stuff
09:32.48gregjbut i am obviously not from UK, so ...
09:33.02bilarhah right
09:33.18bilarhyeah the uk part is just a tiny little bit at the top, isn't it?
09:33.26gregjI just need to find out, how much do I have to borrow to be able to fly there, and live for the first month without income, with all CC on nil level
09:34.37bilarhah ok
09:35.30gregjflight cost is something I can easily find out from easyjet, the cost of accomodation, is probably some b&b for a while, but food and stuff, I have no idea
09:37.11kjsMorning
09:45.09wethrinRyanair is probably your best bet for getting to .ie
09:45.32morsingwethrin: PIE
09:45.36wethrinMmm, pie
09:45.52morsingwethrin: What's your favourite pie?
09:46.01wethrinnotes that ilikep.ie is still available
09:46.02boudiccasis the mailing list down again?
09:46.12gregjwethrin: well, I don't want to be treated like shit, and squeezed for 3h
09:46.13morsingboudiccas: Gllug is dead
09:46.22gregjwethrin: I rather pay 80 quid for decent conditions
09:46.28wethringregj: Aer Lingus, then
09:46.52gregjeasyjet flies from Cracow (where I am right now), to belfast
09:46.53wethrinmorsing: Would you stop saying that.
09:47.50morsingwethrin: What's your favourite pie?
09:47.51gregjI just need to borrown 1200 quid from someone now, and no bank is going to give me loan. heh, limbo
09:47.51wethrinEither help organise things, so it's not dead, or don't say anything. But saying it's dead is very unproductive
09:48.24mindbendrbilarh: i haven't tried it :) i don't find it necessary
09:48.47mindbendrbilarh: i think you spotted the error i did
09:50.01bilarhmindbendr: ah ok :)
09:54.57mindbendrwhy doesn't $path  work for cron
09:55.18bilarhit doesn't load the login profile
09:55.38bilarhif you want the profile to be loaded, do a     /bin/bash --login -e "/my/script/here"
09:55.42bilarhe.g.
10:35.30halihm, so the blastwave guy got the hump
10:38.11bilarhblastwave?
10:40.52DiscordianUKsolaris package repository
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11:01.41Blaptobloody internets
11:02.24mindbendris it possible to disable write-cache for a SCSI lun from the OS? if so which command
11:28.09gregjwhat's the :
11:28.10gregjConduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003
11:28.16gregjI am opting out of the Regulations and accordingly the provisions of the Regulations will not apply to any services provided by me YES/NO
11:28.25gregjI don't know what the conduct of ... is, anyone ?
11:29.08wethrinEuropean Working Time Directive?
11:29.20wethrinAsk whoever sent you the form
11:30.53gregjit sounds like 'I wont use that regulation against the company, blah blah'
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11:43.22gregjleeds from hk
11:43.34gregjor is it leeds from leeds
11:43.35gregj:>
12:30.34morsingLeeds!
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12:33.12morsingLeedsHK!
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12:58.11kraptvAny of you played with Free-to-Air Satellite TV? (HD or standard)
12:59.58DiscordianNah I use Freeview
13:00.06DiscordianYou mean FreeSAT?
13:00.33kraptvSaw an ad on the Maplin website and was interested in what iwas capable of receiving....
13:01.04DiscordianOh the portable satellite dish?
13:01.10kraptvIn the US, you can get all sorts of weird IRD's and dishes and get random stuff, even wildfeeds (the unedited feeds of television shows and news reports intended for local broadcast)
13:01.34kraptvand since I am new to the area, I am a little bit reluctant to just shell out dough for Sky+....
13:01.50DiscordianThe BBc and ITV have a new FTA service called FreeSAT
13:02.21DiscordianBut you'd need a dish and a box
13:02.55kraptvany good?
13:03.27DiscordianNo idea, I get good freeview coverage from a set top box with a set top aerial
13:03.44kraptvI hear about various random vendors sticking their dishes at the continental satellite and getting various things, so I was just wondering.
13:04.01Discordianand I can't see anything that freesat has that freeview doesn't that's a show stopper for me
13:07.30DiscordianIt's all heavily rotated and repeated content
13:23.26kraptvso it would be a waste of money, ehh?
13:26.16DiscordianFor me no, I like Freeview
13:26.31DiscordianBut perhaps for you yes
13:26.34morsingCheck it!
13:26.56Discordiancheck what?
13:27.57kraptvcheck your self before you riggity wreck yourself!
13:28.56DiscordianYou know I think I parsed your nick as KDE-rap-tv
13:35.22kraptvhey, nice! I have a slightly stranger alternative nick...
13:35.51DiscordianThat's quite quite different
13:36.24DiscordianI presume kraptv is an ironic comment
13:36.52morsingannedonaldson17!
13:37.12DiscordianAlong the lines of the Pink Floyd's "and I've got 64 channels of shit on the TV to chose from"
13:37.54DiscordianYou know I think Morsing and Eliza would really hit it off
13:38.23morsingDiscordian: We already did but she's stopped responding to my emails
13:38.45Discordiant'ching
13:41.48BlaptoAndy just came back to his desk and declared he had seen the "whole opening ceremony"
13:41.53BlaptoIt can't be just me that found that funny
13:42.32DiscordianLol
13:42.46DiscordianIt's gonna run and tun
13:42.49Discordian*run
13:43.13BlaptoNo, as in homophone for whole
13:44.40mindbendranyone remembering how not to save history when exiting bash
13:44.58Blaptokill -9 $$ ?
13:45.10BlaptoAs in
13:45.13Blaptokill -9 $$
13:45.14Blaptono ?
13:46.20BlaptoOr apparently you can set the history file to /dev/null
13:47.06Discordianwhy would you want to do that, if you're a legit system user?
13:53.48kraptvisn't there also unset SAVEHIST ?
13:55.04Discordianyes
13:55.40kraptvmaybe they have really horrible expect scripts they don't want other sysadmins to discover.
13:56.27z00dax((expect)++)--
13:56.49mindbendrlol
13:57.08DiscordianExpect has it's uses
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14:47.51morsingDiscordian!
14:47.56morsingdick_turpin!
14:53.34bilarhdick_turpin in da house
14:55.14dick_turpinbilarh: hey hey huggie bear
14:56.44bilarhdick_turpin: i'm excrementally excreted! I've found pink car vinyl :D
14:57.08bilarhfor 7 quid for a 610mm x 5m roll
14:57.29dick_turpinbilarh: You big girls blouse
14:58.20dick_turpinbilarh: Next you'll be telling me you need to buy some 'kinky boots' to drive the thing
14:58.33bilarhkinky boots - check
14:58.39bilarhwig - check
14:58.51dick_turpinrotflmao
14:59.06bilarhman boobs - check
14:59.22Discordianwah
14:59.24dick_turpinbilarh: Ar you gonna do a Thelma and Louise?
14:59.41bilarhonly if i get some girl on girl action
14:59.54dick_turpinbilarh: No hang on, Presilla queen of the desert!
15:00.49DiscordianAre you playing Terance Stamp?
15:01.23bilarhdick_turpin: who the hell is that? way before my time
15:01.34bilarhwhen you get out of the stone age, let me know :P
15:01.45dick_turpinIf you like, who's gonna play the girl with the ping pong balls?
15:02.18bilarhhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109045/.
15:02.25DiscordianPriscilla is a sad film, made me cry
15:02.25bilarhhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109045/ even
15:02.49bilarhomg omg, two drag queens and a transexual get a gig in the middle of europe
15:02.58bilarhthat's like.... us :D
15:03.18dick_turpinI'm not sure if I should own up to enjoying the film to be honest
15:03.19Discordianeurope?
15:03.30Discordianit was .au
15:03.35bilarhdiscordian: i modified that part to fit in with my plans :)
15:04.08DiscordianAre you outing yourself?
15:04.26bilarhsee scumball3000
15:05.50DiscordianI thought the bit with Stamp's character and her son was sad
15:06.28phearlesscomes back from a 2nd interview with MarkIT
15:06.43DiscordianDid you get a job?
15:07.25boudiccaslots of little black thunderflies around today, damn them
15:08.06Discordianyeah i've seen a few
15:08.17dick_turpinSun is out up here :-)
15:08.23DiscordianI hate killing things
15:08.28boudiccasits cool and overcast down here
15:08.56boudiccasso do i, but these little blighters are so irritating when they crawl on your skin
15:09.13dick_turpinboudiccas: It'd hot up if I came down and.. bugger I'm still married
15:09.54boudiccasdick_turpin; you keep promising me ....... what i'm not sure of. [me is all sweet and innocent]
15:11.27dick_turpinboudiccas: Don't say that, and for gods sake don't say your an ex convent girl you know I'm not allowed to get excited ;-)
15:11.58boudiccasno, i'm not ex-convict girl, i went to boarding school
15:12.08Discordianlol
15:12.34dick_turpinboudiccas: Arrghhh thats even worse now I cant get up for at least half an hour
15:13.01boudiccaswont someone knock on the cubicle door and ask if you're all right???
15:13.50dick_turpinboarding school, pillow fights in nighties at midnight, sounds of giggling
15:14.12boudiccasand lines for talking after lights out
15:14.37dick_turpinboudiccas: Oh god yes corporal punishment.........
15:14.44boudiccasand water fights with the fourth year in the dorm below us
15:14.53boudiccashe wasnt in my year
15:15.19dick_turpinboudiccas: He? you've shattered my day dream you sod
15:16.24boudiccasthe house master used to give the boys the slipper, dont know what they were supposed to do with it, but he only gave us girls lines, and picking up stones from the flower beds round the house
15:16.43morsingboudiccas!
15:17.01dick_turpinboudiccas: lol
15:17.54boudiccasmorsing!
15:18.26dick_turpinboudiccas: bilarhis going to kit the inside of his car out in pink, he'll take cruising for fun to a whole new level
15:18.49bilarhno the outside you mont
15:18.51bilarhg
15:18.53boudiccaspink! oh yuk!
15:19.05bilarhboudiccas: hrm, prefer brown?
15:19.19dick_turpinbilarh: Whats the inside gonna be? Latex?
15:19.26bilarhdick_turpin: naturally
15:19.27boudiccasa nice chestnut colour is more restfull
15:19.41bilarhchests mmmm
15:19.47dick_turpinlol
15:20.04morsingBeer
15:20.44dick_turpinbilarh: Please don't say your getting fluffy dice
15:20.59bilarhhere's the inside fabric
15:21.01bilarhhttp://www.interiormall.com/cat/nsample.asp?ID=40125&t=137
15:21.24dick_turpinRotflmfao
15:21.33boudiccasthat is gross
15:21.45dick_turpinboudiccas: And so is bilarh
15:22.13bilarhmy work here is done :)
15:24.54dick_turpinawaits bilarh's response to the rude /pm
15:29.26boudiccaswhat, dick_turpin rude??? never !!! :))))
15:30.14morsingsnuff
15:30.38phearless<Discordian> Did you get a job? > I have to wait for tuesday to get a potential offer
15:31.02dick_turpinboudiccas: All right slightly porno then, I didn't want to make you blush seeing as you're sweet and innocent ;-)
15:31.14Discordiani may have an interview Tuesday
15:31.24dick_turpinCool
15:31.44boudiccasdick_turpin; walnut whip willies? i've seen them and handled them :)
15:32.19dick_turpinlooks aghast at boudiccas
15:32.28DiscordianI'm glad I'm baffled
15:32.35boudiccasremember, i was a nurse :)
15:33.09dick_turpinI know, remeber I worked in the health service too nurses are terrible
15:33.28boudiccasteehee
15:33.44boudiccasbeen there and worn the tee shirt
15:34.46DiscordianAll the nurses who've looked after me ever were nice
15:34.47bilarhwhat's a walnut whip willie?
15:34.57dick_turpinI worked at Amersham general which back then was a teaching one (I think) anyway they had nurses homes on site. Finals night was always lots and lots of fun :-)
15:35.36boudiccasa willie that is so shrunken it looks like a walnut whip
15:35.43bilarhah
15:35.59bilarhlike when i have a cold bath? :S
15:36.10boudiccasmost hospitals are teaching hospitals for nurses
15:36.22boudiccasbilarh; possibly, i'd have to see to comment on it
15:36.23dick_turpinbilarh: No like when you take your strides off :-P
15:36.39bilarhboudiccas: webcam?
15:37.00bilarhdick_turpin: your wife likes it  :P
15:37.08boudiccasyes, that would do. but walnut whip willies seem to be the preserve of the elderly
15:37.28bilarhah, like dick_turpin?
15:37.35boudiccasyes
15:37.44dick_turpinbilarh: Your brother must have told you that, she likes your brother
15:37.47boudiccasi mean, possibly
15:37.53boudiccas:)
15:38.11bilarhmy damn brother ruining my fun again
15:39.33dick_turpinbilarh: Everyone likes your brother
15:40.06boudiccasdick_turpin; do we? i've never met him!
15:40.06bilarhhe is a sweet boy
15:40.52boudiccascome to that i've never met dick_turpin either
15:41.26boudiccasone day that fact will be rectified
15:41.27morsingTea
15:41.33boudiccascakes
15:41.38dick_turpinboudiccas: Everyone likes bilarh's brother more than bilarh stands to reason
15:42.21boudiccasexcuseme for being thick, but /what/ stands to reason???
15:42.28bilarhoh man, only two weeks left in this office
15:42.39bilarhthen it's crawley *boo* *hiss*
15:42.53dick_turpinboudiccas: bilarh is horrid
15:43.12dick_turpinbilarh: get thee to Crawley
15:43.14boudiccasis he? he seems reasonably sane to me
15:43.19DiscordianThere's some nice restaurants in heywoods heath
15:43.33dick_turpinboudiccas: Its all a front ;-)
15:43.37Discordianwhich is near crawley
15:44.03bilarhdiscordian: define nice?
15:44.13bilarhdiscordian: do they have other than white lightning on the menu?
15:45.02Discordianthey do nice shellfish
15:45.16Discordianwhite lightning just say no
15:45.30bilarhwhy do the other ocean creatures not like prawns?
15:45.36mikejwI"m from haywards heath!
15:45.53mikejwwell Lindfield
15:47.07mikejwbilarh: I don't know. Why do other ocean creatures not like prawns?
15:48.09bilarhmikejw: because they are all shellfish  *boom boom*
15:48.26bilarhs/all/so/
15:48.36boudiccasquick, hide! Basil Brush is here
15:50.52dick_turpinI'm off home in a few mins bye all
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16:11.06kraptvolympic olympic torch lit.
16:14.05wethrinfinally...
16:55.54mindbendri'm off, have a good weekend.
16:58.16morsingBye...
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18:25.36jpdsmorsing: evening.
18:26.02kraptvcracking!
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21:29.21ChoHagI don't get it. She gets upset when I tell her she's not fat.
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