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| 08:29.57 | ChoHag | I hate turning my computers off :( |
| 08:30.05 | ChoHag | moves house |
| 08:31.41 | bilarh | oh, moving |
| 08:31.46 | bilarh | have fun :D |
| 08:32.56 | cpufreak | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/8164315.stm |
| 08:33.39 | bilarh | cpufreak: so? |
| 08:33.55 | cpufreak | read the article fuckface |
| 08:34.10 | cpufreak | its like blah blah blah |
| 08:34.11 | cpufreak | zero info |
| 08:34.14 | cpufreak | blah blah blah |
| 08:34.18 | cpufreak | timeportal into another universe |
| 08:34.20 | cpufreak | blahh blah blah |
| 08:34.23 | cpufreak | hype and blather |
| 08:34.26 | cpufreak | blah blah blah |
| 08:34.27 | cpufreak | not sure |
| 08:34.35 | bilarh | immigrant blah blah |
| 08:34.47 | bilarh | typical of the bbc nowadays |
| 08:34.52 | bilarh | rubbish all around |
| 08:35.04 | cpufreak | oh |
| 08:35.08 | cpufreak | finally thye include the info |
| 08:35.19 | cpufreak | they just updated it |
| 08:35.22 | bilarh | oh yeah |
| 08:35.23 | cpufreak | before it said |
| 08:35.23 | bilarh | so they have |
| 08:35.29 | cpufreak | "It has not been confirmed exactly what has happened. " |
| 08:36.11 | bilarh | apparenlty, we have swine flu at work :D |
| 08:36.24 | bilarh | goes around licking all the cpus |
| 08:36.25 | bilarh | cpus |
| 08:36.29 | bilarh | cups |
| 08:36.31 | bilarh | fgs |
| 08:36.44 | bilarh | hopefully i'll catch swineflu and not herpes |
| 08:40.52 | cpufreak | heh |
| 08:41.04 | cpufreak | my boss is off with swine flu |
| 08:41.52 | bilarh | if i catch herpes instead, can i take time off for that? |
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| 09:09.19 | mindbendr | seems interesting, has anyone tried it ? http://lwn.net/Articles/340477/ |
| 09:56.41 | yaMatt | mindbendr, has it actually been released yet? |
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| 11:16.40 | dick_turpin | bilarh: Whats the moan for today then? |
| 11:18.12 | wethrin | dick_turpin! Tell me another of your stories! |
| 11:18.42 | dick_turpin | wethrin: Um I can give you a moan about customers if you like? |
| 11:18.58 | wethrin | yay! |
| 11:21.08 | dick_turpin | So I was asked to give a quote on a laptop, true I wanted to make a couple of bob so over the phone I reeled off this Acer unit |
| 11:21.42 | dick_turpin | Customer: Can you give me that in writing |
| 11:22.07 | dick_turpin | So like the fool I am I duly write down the make and spec |
| 11:22.23 | dick_turpin | Customer: Can I have the model number please |
| 11:22.46 | dick_turpin | Hm I know your game "Its the 5 series" |
| 11:22.57 | dick_turpin | an hour later |
| 11:23.17 | dick_turpin | Customer : Um I can get it £50 cheaper |
| 11:24.29 | dick_turpin | Me: So F Off and buy it oh and in future you want some hardware F Off and sort it yourself don't get me to waste my time writing everything down so you can cut-n-paste and send my work to other people |
| 11:25.00 | dick_turpin | wethrin: I didn't say that really just thought it :-) |
| 11:25.55 | wethrin | yeah. Oh well. |
| 11:26.19 | dick_turpin | wethrin: Said it wasn't very good |
| 11:26.33 | dick_turpin | Sort of |
| 11:27.09 | wethrin | mm |
| 11:27.12 | dick_turpin | wethrin: Ooh CYB has a new catch phrase, Whoosh test! hahaha |
| 11:27.21 | wethrin | CYB? |
| 11:27.39 | dick_turpin | Yeah Captain Y B you know |
| 11:27.44 | wethrin | ah |
| 11:27.49 | wethrin | your boss? |
| 11:28.02 | dick_turpin | Bastard Don't even remind me |
| 11:28.31 | dick_turpin | Its OK they don't have the brains to read IRC logs |
| 11:28.47 | wethrin | ibot logs |
| 11:28.48 | ibot | All conversations are logged to http://ibot.rikers.org/channel, where "channel" is replaced by the URL-encoded channel name, such as %23freenode for #freenode. Lines starting with spaces are not logged. |
| 11:29.09 | dick_turpin | I'm too old to be scared :-) |
| 11:30.03 | dick_turpin | wethrin: Got one that involves him if you're interested? |
| 11:30.14 | wethrin | sure |
| 11:30.17 | wethrin | keep telling 'em |
| 11:30.53 | dick_turpin | So he's such a tit his wife rang yesterday "The boys cant get on websites" |
| 11:31.11 | dick_turpin | CYB: They can its just I've blocked them |
| 11:32.04 | dick_turpin | He stuck one of our web proxy boxes in at home to block every social and game site, and the kids are off for six weeks now! |
| 11:32.31 | wethrin | ouch |
| 11:32.35 | wethrin | Bored at home. |
| 11:33.22 | dick_turpin | Well the boys will be so the mum should be suicidal in about four days time |
| 11:33.32 | wethrin | mm |
| 11:34.07 | dick_turpin | CYB: "I'm not having them on Facebook all day every day |
| 11:34.20 | wethrin | why not? |
| 11:34.30 | dick_turpin | WTF You're at work and they are at home, tit |
| 11:36.50 | wethrin | They'll find a way around it |
| 11:37.59 | dick_turpin | Yeah get a new dad |
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| 12:11.27 | dick_turpin | wethrin: Here we go |
| 12:12.51 | dick_turpin | Customer: I cant get on the Internet I've run a Virus scan when I click on the e it tries to go to Yahoo but just sits there |
| 12:13.23 | dick_turpin | Type in www.google.co.uk tell me what happens |
| 12:13.40 | dick_turpin | Customer: Its gone straight to Google |
| 12:14.10 | dick_turpin | Customer: Can you fix it so it works with Yahoo |
| 12:14.32 | dick_turpin | Me: Na sorry Yahoo is broken :-D |
| 12:17.20 | AndyMillar | dick_turpin: customers who do that with price are annoying |
| 12:17.50 | AndyMillar | I prefer my way of buying things... "I want X and I want it to cost less than Y" :) |
| 12:18.14 | AndyMillar | magically that tends to happen |
| 12:20.01 | dick_turpin | AndyMillar: OK on the one true they have to get the best price but when they use us as their IT dept and get us to spec stuff up ect plus we do their maintenance, email yadder yadder, Oh and want us to transfer the data from the old laptop to the new one getting all smart arse over the hardware price is taking the piss in my book |
| 12:20.12 | dick_turpin | on the one hand |
| 12:27.30 | boudiccas | dick_turpin, you piss in the book in one hand? seems rather anti-social dont you think? |
| 12:28.02 | dick_turpin | boudiccas: No have to use two hands :-P |
| 12:28.29 | boudiccas | mind you dont get it caught in the book, paper cuts on it would be very painful |
| 12:29.14 | dick_turpin | boudiccas: Would you kiss.. Oops |
| 12:29.44 | boudiccas | nope, don't even think of it! the answer would be a resounding 'NO' |
| 12:30.14 | boudiccas | you'd have to bend down and kiss it better yourself |
| 12:31.17 | dick_turpin | boudiccas: Na I can reach the end without having to bend at all :) |
| 12:31.28 | boudiccas | and anyway, i dont have the time available to me, as i'm going out shopping soon. |
| 12:31.44 | boudiccas | twas on the good ship venus, by god you should've seen us |
| 12:31.55 | dick_turpin | boudiccas: For anything nice? |
| 12:32.09 | boudiccas | the first mates name was cropper, by god he had a whopper |
| 12:32.31 | boudiccas | twice round the deck, once round his neck and up his ar*e for a stopper! |
| 12:32.47 | boudiccas | food mainly i think |
| 12:33.08 | boudiccas | although i might just look in primark to see if theyve got naything interesting |
| 12:33.18 | bilarh | carrots and cucumbers, by the sounds of the conversation above :( |
| 12:33.27 | dick_turpin | "One day a lone cowboy rode into the town, one hand on his saddle one hand on his..." |
| 12:33.34 | boudiccas | hip |
| 12:33.57 | boudiccas | he was gay |
| 12:34.03 | dick_turpin | And I cant possibly sing the rest with ladies like bilarh around |
| 12:34.23 | boudiccas | i dont know that one, you'll have to tell me dick_turpin please |
| 12:34.32 | AndyMillar | dick_turpin: ah, yeah, that is rather fail |
| 12:34.56 | dick_turpin | boudiccas: Um I'll try and clean the chorus up |
| 12:35.24 | boudiccas | you can always pm me the unexerpurgated version :) |
| 12:35.39 | dick_turpin | "She's dirty she's filthy shell f.. you in the street one smell of her .... knocks you right off your feet" |
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| 12:36.17 | boudiccas | hmm |
| 12:36.42 | boudiccas | maybe it grows on you after a couple of pints? |
| 12:36.44 | dick_turpin | boudiccas: Thank god they don't sing them ditties anymore |
| 12:36.59 | boudiccas | we used to sing them coming back from rowing regattas |
| 12:37.13 | dick_turpin | Rugby songs |
| 12:37.39 | dick_turpin | I only went for the communal baths ;-) |
| 12:37.51 | boudiccas | i was the school rowing cox, in charge of eight strapping blokes out on the water. they all did what i told them |
| 12:39.09 | dick_turpin | has visions of boudiccas being propelled by 8 blokes |
| 12:44.46 | boudiccas | yes, and it always hurt my back |
| 12:45.20 | hali | lower back? |
| 12:45.24 | boudiccas | everytime thblades wentin the water nadn they pulled them back i got jerked back in my seat, so i always ended up with a sore back |
| 12:45.33 | boudiccas | yes, very lower |
| 12:45.45 | hali | sort of more between the cheeks? |
| 12:45.54 | boudiccas | no, higher then that |
| 12:45.59 | hali | ok, just checking |
| 12:46.05 | boudiccas | :) |
| 12:46.13 | boudiccas | where have i heard that before? |
| 12:46.35 | hali | probably from one of the many filthy swedes we have in here |
| 12:46.54 | bilarh | is innocent |
| 12:47.23 | boudiccas | bilarh, then why do oyu have your fingers crossed behind your back then? |
| 12:47.32 | boudiccas | *you |
| 12:48.56 | bilarh | why do you have your legs crossed behind your neck? :) |
| 12:49.29 | boudiccas | i'm practising my yoga ready for class |
| 12:49.45 | bilarh | mm-hmmm... |
| 13:51.08 | hali | hmhm |
| 14:03.00 | mindbendr | yaMatt: yeah apparently one of my colleages has been using it on his ubuntu for a while with success. |
| 14:03.57 | yaMatt | mindbendr, nice, id be interested in seeing that work, i wonder if it can be also used for patching any old running software |
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| 16:01.48 | mindbendr | yaMatt: yeah that'd be interesting, not necessary mostly though |
| 17:01.38 | mindbendr | laters |
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