IRC log for #gllug on 20081027

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01:04.29z00daxlooks in
01:59.16DiscordianUKgah tis cold
02:08.54LeedsI don't call a forecast high of 30C cold
02:10.31DiscordianUK9c here
02:11.00Leedssuppose I would call that slightly chilly, yes
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05:55.25morsingLeeds!
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07:51.45morsingsabinef72!
07:51.57morsingStephmw: I don't think sabinef72 likes us anymore
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09:15.59morsingLeeds!
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09:29.10morsingan0key!
09:29.20an0keymorsing: morsing!
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09:44.19morsingBlapto!
09:46.21Blaptoning!
09:50.54ChoHag9C isn't chilly.
09:51.10BlaptoI'm wearing a short sleeved shirt today.
09:51.15BlaptoPeople are looking at me funny.
09:51.30ChoHagYou have to get down to about 4 or 5 before you start getting into chilly territory.
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10:02.23bilarh_oh man you're having a laugh, it's only 10am!??!
10:04.41an0keyI want to go home already!
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10:37.47morsingblight!
10:37.52morsingStephmw!
11:08.47z00daxah, few months of server time and local time being in sync.
11:08.51z00daxmorsing:
11:11.04an0keyz00dax: Trying to get your head around UTC vs BST is so much fun though
11:16.15morsingz00dax: Check it!"
12:04.53ChoHagI don't trust people who, when correcting a command partially entered to a terminal, delete everything back to the error and retype everything.
12:05.18ChoHagI'm not entirely sure why.
12:05.33BlaptoI can type faster than key repeat on a lot of terminal
12:08.20ChoHagBut probably not faster than not having to retype anything at all.
12:10.42BlaptoSome terminals don't let you do that
12:23.07Stephmwsees the room-to-rent ad
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13:14.37Stephmw'mygeekflatshare.co.uk' sterling idea!
13:15.27morsingdick_turpin!
13:15.33morsingkisses dick_turpin's twee nose
13:16.10dick_turpinInteresting seeing as I've my head up my arse at the minute
13:26.32dick_turpinbilarh_: Unleaded fuel: Sainsburys: Walsall: 94.9 per ltr
13:27.19bilarh_i paid 91.9p in the weekend
13:27.31bilarh_http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/article1858561.ece
13:28.03dick_turpinbilarh_: Wow
13:36.13Stephmwibot: monday
13:36.13ibotit has been said that monday is when everything breaks for no apparent reason, creating so many problems that it takes you until friday to get back to normal. at which point one more thing breaks that takes you the whole weekend to fix
13:36.30bilarh_hehe :D
13:36.33bilarh_ibot :D
13:36.33ibotd is Soraya_'s unique version of the n disease. There is no cure.
13:36.51bilarh_ibot: random
13:48.34Blaptoibot: Tuesday
13:48.34ibotTuesday sucks, because it follows Monday (see monday).
13:48.43Blaptoibot: Wednesday
13:48.43ibotWednesday sucks, because it is only half way through the week.
13:48.48Blaptoibot: Thursday
13:48.49ibot"This must be Thursday.  I could never get the hang of Thursdays." (Arthur Dent)
13:48.54Blaptoibot: Friday
13:48.54ibot! ! ! F R I D A Y ! ! !
13:49.02Blaptoibot: Saturday
13:49.02ibotSaturday is the day that sucks the least!
13:49.07Blaptoibot: Sunday
13:49.08ibotSunday is the day all trolls swarm to #debian, avoid at all cost to remain sane.
13:49.21Blaptoibot: January
13:49.38BlaptoGood job that didn't work
14:05.52dick_turpinbilarh_: Glad to see you're putting ibot to good use
14:07.23morsingBeer
14:13.50bilarh_dick_turpin: shut it, i've got a massive head ache
14:14.17bilarh_some bastard midget crawled through my ear last night and he's having a go at my frontal lobe with a pneumatic drill
14:14.38bilarh_i tried to coax him out with a bit of cheese
14:15.52dick_turpinbilarh_: Snap! So have I, can we find any drugs for it? can we heck as like
14:22.12bilarh_i'm planning on trying a grape next
14:22.31bilarh_or maybe i could watch Snowwhite porn
14:22.40bilarh_if i turn my ear towards the screen
14:23.00z00daxwaves from Canary Warf
14:23.11bilarh_wahey canary wharf
14:23.15z00daxits been a while since I came down this side,  at a reasonable hour of the day
14:23.16bilarh_i've always wanted to work there
14:23.21z00daxman, this place looks low
14:23.24z00daxbilarh_: its overrated
14:23.47bilarh_it used to look pretty at night until they decided to go all green and turn the lights off at night
14:24.03z00daxhaha yea
14:24.16z00daxon the flip side, there is free wifi all over the place now
14:24.20bilarh_ah cool
14:24.25z00daxalthough, i dont trust it, and openvpn++
14:24.42Leedsgenerally, openvpn++
14:25.03z00daxLeeds: yeah, although sometimes i wonder how much of b/w is 'lost' to it
14:25.07bilarh_what's the mood like in canary wharf?
14:25.14bilarh_have you noticed people being ruder than usual?
14:25.16bilarh_etc? :)
14:25.19Leedsz00dax: you mean the overhead?  pretty small, I think
14:25.39bilarh_damn, ftse breaking even today
14:25.51bilarh_finishing in pos territory
14:25.53z00daxbilarh_: quite low, the mood. And the whole place feels quieter and emptier compared wth about this time last year
14:26.06bilarh_would be with lehmans going, hsbc sacking 500 etc :)
14:26.13bilarh_(i guess)
14:26.14z00daxits only half past 2, there is plenty of time for the markets to close
14:26.19bilarh_thanks his lucky star he didn't get the job at lehmans
14:26.25bilarh_yeah i know
14:26.55bilarh_massive volatility every day now it seems
14:26.56z00daxI am here meeting with an old friend who worked at lehmans, lost his job, then go hired again back into lehmans with a 15% increment
14:27.05bilarh_ace :)
14:27.18bilarh_the downturn will be good for people who can keep their jobs, i reckon
14:27.25z00daxyup
14:27.33Leedsthe HK market dropped over 12% today - it was down over 15% at one point
14:28.02bilarh_i can't believe the nikkei closed at a 23 year low
14:28.05bilarh_it's complete madness
14:28.17bilarh_23 year low, for crying out loud... and that's before inflation
14:28.31bilarh_although maybe japans' been deflating for a couple of decades by now
14:28.46LeedsHK market has lost something like 30% *this month*
14:28.51bilarh_it's nuts
14:28.57bilarh_i saw that it was down like 60% over the last year
14:29.05z00daxthe indian markets are also getting quite a battering these days
14:29.13bilarh_makes my 50% pension fund in nikkei 225 look good :D
14:29.18Leedsit was pushing 2/3 loss from peak at one point today
14:29.20z00daxthe bombay stock exchange is down to half its value in 5 months
14:29.21morsingBeer
14:29.55Leedsalso, I'll swap you some magic beans for these pounds I found down the back of the sofa?
14:30.13Leedsfscking worthless queen-based currency
14:30.27bilarh_well that's the thing, the stock markets, like the housing market, have been completely driven by availability of credit
14:30.39bilarh_take the credit away (or restrict it) and the whole thing looks very shaky
14:31.40bilarh_imo at least
14:31.49bilarh_although i'm looking at investing in some index trackers soon
14:31.51Leedsthere have been a few high-profile business failures in HK already...
14:32.08Leedsthe local Krispy Kreme franchisee announced today they were shutting up shop
14:32.23bilarh_not krispy!! :(
14:32.42z00daxas long as their branch in Bluewater is still ok, I am fine
14:32.54dick_turpinI see that Valuers are going to be sued by lenders for over valueing houses
14:32.57bilarh_bluewater, is that a good one? with donuts made on site?
14:33.12z00daxyes, wasent that the first and largest one in the UK
14:33.20Leedsalong with a well-known discount clothing shop (although their local store seems to be open again, which could be the administrators trying to sell of stock) and a second-tier but reasonably well-known electronics retailer
14:33.41z00daxbilarh_: glass front bake / fry / fill machine etc
14:33.51bilarh_dick_turpin: how about suing the liars that took the loans out in the first place, no doubt putting some pressure on the valuers to "value highly"?
14:34.54z00daxdamn
14:35.11z00daxI'd forgotten how bad starbucks coffee really is. this large americano was a bad idea
14:35.21wethrinThis is why I never go to Starbucks
14:35.27wethrinI prefer to not drink coffee
14:35.50dick_turpinbilarh_: According to the Radio 4 item at dinner time it was sort of a collusion between all three yet now the lenders  are crying about the short fall on repossesions
14:36.36dick_turpinbilarh_: I.e. they aren't making as much when the resell the repossed house as it was over valued
14:36.40Leedswethrin: you live! got a card from the post office today - could be your stuff, could be the amazon.com order I put in last week, could be something else... should know on Wednesday when it becomes collectable
14:36.44dick_turpinthey
14:37.34wethrinLeeds: Hurrah!
14:37.56LeedsI will keep you 'in the loo'
14:37.59Leedsuh, loop :-)
14:38.14wethrin:-)
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14:45.21morsingkinko!
14:46.12z00daxha
14:46.20Leedshe
14:46.35z00daxno really, this is funny
14:46.43Leedsis it?
14:46.57z00daxI am not allowed to mention name, but you know that company you buy books from
14:47.06wethrinWaterstones?
14:47.20Leedsthe one I'm waiting for a delivery from?
14:47.26z00daxwethrin: no, the other one, who have a storage thing and cloud / cluster thing online too
14:47.47z00daxthey want the entire centos-virt SIG to sign a NDA before they will let us use their api in -devel mode
14:47.58wethrinha
14:48.03Leedsoops
14:48.18z00daxthey didnt think it was funny when i told them, might as well put it in the wiki and let anyone who adds their name there be 'signed'
14:48.37LeedsI'll sign it, if it helps...
14:48.58bilarh_wethrin: you are a freak, go see the doctors
14:49.21wethrinPah
14:49.23Leedsbilarh_: he *is* the doctor (sort of)
14:49.34bilarh_i know, that's why it was (sort of) funny :D
14:49.47Leedssort of :-P
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14:51.53z00daxnot even sure howto approach this. the general floos list mentality would be : fsck them and their nda. but i am sure there must be some floss friendly way of doing this.
14:52.17z00daxeither have a few 'gateway' people, and only have them signed up, and have everyone go through there / them
14:52.57z00daxthen there is the question of liability... if one of them goes and blogs fluff they are not supposed to  - who is accoutnable, the person himself / herself or someone else ?
14:55.00antiphaseThe one that signed the NDA I'd have thought, so be prepared for a nasty costly lawsuit from a big company that will take you to the cleaners
14:55.38morsingStephmw!
14:55.51z00daxantiphase: so everyone signs up, on their own name and with no real connection with centos...
14:56.08z00daxi think maybe we should just look at whats the diff with the api in devel and non-devel mode
14:56.20antiphaseOr just tell them to stick their API up their arse
14:56.31z00dax:D
14:59.28bilarh_dick_turpin: well, fair enough they should have checked the valuations themselves
14:59.39ChoHagApparently checking through >500 lines of test results, every morning, looking for failures is the way to look out for problems.
15:00.11z00daxChoHag: if your tests output results even on pass, your tests are broken
15:00.29bilarh_dick_turpin: what makes me angry is when you have people going on tv crying that they will lose their home and begging the government (i.e. the taxpayer i.e me and you to bail them out), when it's obvious that they've overborrowed in the first place
15:00.32z00daxand if there are failures, you stop at the first one and fix that, if the tests are done with a proper dep-tree
15:00.42bilarh_wtf do my taxes have to pay to keep house prices out of reach for *me*?
15:00.45ChoHagI tried to suggest that, but my manager is a fucktard.
15:00.53bilarh_it's a complete kick in the teeth and it's perverse
15:01.49dick_turpinbilarh_: I'll say this openly, I don't blame anyone who is in debt I'm willing to bet that nowhere down the line did anyone say "Hang on you cant afford this" in fact the opposite "Oh dont worry about that we'll sort all that out"
15:02.35bilarh_they should be thinking for themselves, though
15:03.39z00daxChoHag: i hope they pay you boatloads of money
15:03.42bilarh_millions of lemmings pile off mountain sides every so often
15:04.05ChoHagHah!
15:04.09Blaptohttp://www.codeweavers.com/about/general/press/20081027/
15:04.10dick_turpinbilarh_: Not in a "Have now pay whenever" society, have you seen them adverts? Bad credit history? No problem. CCJ's No worries
15:04.26bilarh_dick_turpin: i despair at the future :(
15:05.53bilarh_and the *final* insult is this: you save some money so that you can put down a deposit on a house (or whatever), you lose your job, you then can't get income support etc until you've used most of your savings
15:05.56dick_turpinbilarh_: I have no sypathy for anyone that lost money in Iceland or anywhere else. They was greedy shits with money to burn so stuff em. They shouldn't get a penny back in my book
15:05.57bilarh_fucking government
15:06.01morsingBeer
15:07.29bilarh_the signals society sends out at the moment is "it's ok if you don't plan for your future and fuck up completely, even though it may have been your fault. the tax payer will support you"
15:07.38bilarh_yeah icesave too
15:07.51ChoHagWhat's likely to be slower? perl & DBI or ssh and multiple fork/exec calls?
15:07.53bilarh_vein on forehead pumping, CHECK
15:07.57bilarh_blood boiling, CHECK
15:08.13bilarh_chohag: to achieve what?
15:08.27bilarh_needs to stop worrying
15:08.30ChoHagMonitoring.
15:08.54ChoHagRunning various commands against mysql & oracle DBs.
15:08.57dick_turpinbilarh_: I've been there with regards loans, "You've been a really good payer we'd like to increase your loan" no mention of "Can you afford this"
15:09.04bilarh_chohag: umm, but it's vastly different what you're doing there...
15:09.07morsinghttp://www.boschautoparts.com/NR/rdonlyres/C77B3446-232B-4AEC-AFA9-AD05F2A0A2AD/0/DesignationCodes.pdf
15:09.10bilarh_chohag: ah in that case i'd go for dbi if i could
15:09.39ChoHagdick_turpin: My overdraft was increased by nearly £1000 recently without even pretending to ask me.
15:09.42bilarh_dick_turpin: yeah but i bet you didn't expect the tax payer to bail you out
15:09.43antiphaseNGK > Bosch
15:10.40dick_turpinbilarh_: My wifes credit card has currently has a limit that would sort out the Balkan debt, she never asked for it they just upped the stakes every three months
15:10.54dick_turpincurrently has
15:11.06bilarh_dick_turpin: that's great :)
15:11.15bilarh_dick_turpin: but it's still her responsibility if she uses it or not
15:11.19dick_turpinbilarh_: Not when she spends it the silly cow
15:11.31bilarh_ok that's not great, but it's up to her isn't it :)
15:12.20dick_turpinbilarh_: You have too much faith in human nature put something in peoples reach and they will use it and stuff the outcome
15:12.40grumpy-old-manmaybe
15:12.48grumpy-old-manbah humbug
15:14.15dick_turpingrumpy-old-man: No just honest no sugary spice everything is nice
15:16.05morsingbilarh!
15:16.14morsingbilarh: Where's wethrin?
15:16.38bilarhmorsing: probably stuck in the post office queue trying to send something to leeds
15:16.43dick_turpinmorsing: Getting a loan before all the money runs out
15:16.52morsingdick_turpin: wethrin is loaded
15:17.03morsingbilarh: wethrin is bigger than a bread box
15:17.30bilarhmakes a note
15:17.35Blaptoibot: wethrin is bigger than a bread box
15:17.36ibot...but wethrin is already something else...
15:17.49Blaptoibot: wethrin is also bigger than a bread box
15:17.50ibotokay, Blapto
15:18.01dick_turpinmakes a note wethrin is loaded question is with what?
15:18.02z00daxhumm
15:18.14Blaptoibot: wethrin
15:18.14ibothmm... wethrin is bigger than a breadbox, unless said breadbox is > 5'11" long, or silly, or afraid that its time to correct how people use it's, or ha, or bigger than a bread box
15:18.30BlaptoOh, he was already bigger than a bread box...  Fail.
15:18.58Blaptoibot: wethrin is not bigger than a bread box
15:18.59ibot...but wethrin is already something else...
15:19.07Blaptocurses!
15:19.11bilarhhas a rifle and a gun
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15:22.30bilarhah, i've found the perfect theme for next years scumball: http://www.ojs.nu/Bilder/2005-09-10_JVM_Dagen/6444.jpg
15:23.11morsingibot wethrin
15:23.11ibotwethrin is probably bigger than a breadbox, unless said breadbox is > 5'11" long, or silly, or afraid that its time to correct how people use it's, or ha, or bigger than a bread box
15:23.46z00daxbilarh: shoot anything interesting recently ?
15:24.08dick_turpinz00dax: Himself, hopefully
15:24.17bilarhz00dax: hmm, i'll have to say no, unfortunately :(
15:25.08z00daxbilarh: has the rifle ever  experienced cordite ?
16:15.52bilarhwas only kidding about guns and rifles
16:15.57bilarhanyway i'm off home
16:16.00bilarhl8rs folks
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18:19.54morsingan0key!
19:22.29morsingWhat's green, has four legs and would kill you if it fell out of a tree and landed on you?
19:23.37morsingMan you people are boring!
19:28.28z00daxmorsing: an alien ?
19:28.39morsingNo, a pool table
19:29.29z00daxodd, the pool table we used today was mostly wood around the bits, and orange cover
19:30.01z00daxbut yes, that would indeed cause some hurt if it fell on top of you
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21:53.38morsinglondo!
21:53.38morsingcatalyst!
21:53.38morsingnixofortune!
21:53.44nixofortunemorsing: yo!
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22:13.38morsingStephmw!
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