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07:54.44morsingeye69: Where's bilarh?
07:55.07haliholiday i think
07:55.17morsingWithout me? :-/
08:17.32bilarhmorning
08:17.58Leedswoohoo, payday!
08:19.16bilarhjust been so busy
08:19.22bilarhmoved last week
08:19.30bilarhand had loads of client meetings etc etc
08:19.35bilarhit's been crazy
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08:22.24morsingnixofortune!
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08:28.10halibilarh: where are you based now?
08:29.49bilarhpetts wood
08:29.52bilarhwel
08:29.55bilarhthat's where i live :)
08:30.24haliah still close to where you were?
08:34.32bilarhyep
08:34.32bilarhjust a nicer area
08:34.32bilarhby the looks of it anyway
08:34.35bilarhsuperficially, it looks nicer
08:35.30halicool
08:36.35haliwe still haven't had beer for ages
08:36.53bilarhi know
08:37.28bilarhthis whole year has been insane
08:51.36bilarhanyone ever removed rust from concrete?
08:51.42bilarhif so, wtf did you do?
09:05.46wethrinKnock it down and rebuild! :)
09:06.01bilarhbrilliant :P
09:06.05wethrinConcrete sucks
09:06.12bilarhyeah :(
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09:29.52antiphaseis worried
09:29.56antiphasedrwxr-xr-x  9 bilarh bilarh 4096 Mar 29  2007 jdk1.5.0_08
09:30.37cpufreak_heh
09:33.32AndyMillarlol
09:34.00AndyMillarantiphase: scarily small world
09:34.11cpufreak_bilarh used to work here
09:34.19AndyMillarshould really make an excuse to go over to hammersmith some time
09:34.23cpufreak_AndyMillar: you should
09:34.26cpufreak_wait til payday tho
09:34.32AndyMillarwhen's that?
09:34.36cpufreak30th october
09:34.39cpufreakI'm broke til then
09:34.46AndyMillarouch :p
09:34.57AndyMillaroh christ
09:35.01AndyMillarthat's my next payday too
09:35.05cpufreakhehe
09:35.12cpufreakI wish they'd just pay us on the 25th of each month
09:35.18cpufreaknot this silly last friday of the month thing
09:35.38AndyMillarshall have to reduce his drinking this month :(
09:36.44bilarhantiphase: ;)
09:36.52AndyMillarhmm
09:37.03AndyMillari've just been handed an aircon control thingy
09:37.26bilarhwhy does that make me think of nipples? :D
09:37.26AndyMillar(from hammersmith :p)
09:38.59bilarhcpufreak: how's the new car going?
09:39.00AndyMillarcpufreak: i would say "come over here", but there's nowhere to go for beer within miles - unless you count the council estate pub we're too scared to go into
09:40.43cpufreakbilarh: its awesome.
09:40.49cpufreakits insanely fast
09:41.50AndyMillarcpufreak: you have a new car?
09:42.00cpufreakas of a month ago yes
09:42.08AndyMillaris behind the times :(
09:42.13cpufreakhttp://badger.ing.me.uk/oldandnew/9D5G3049.jpg
09:42.21cpufreakhttp://badger.ing.me.uk/oldandnew/9D5G3053.jpg
09:42.24cpufreakold and new ones together
09:42.48AndyMillar\o/
09:46.18bilarhcpufreak: nice one
09:46.52bilarhcpufreak: is it faster than the csl?
09:48.38cpufreakdefinitely in a straight line
09:48.55cpufreak0-60 is 4.1.. 0-100 ~9,
09:48.56cpufreaketc
09:49.13cpufreakcsl is 4.6, 9.7 respectively
09:49.21cpufreakits also surprisingly nimble on backroads
09:50.56bilarh0-100 in 9'ish is very good indeed
09:51.11cpufreakits also how it delivers it
09:51.22cpufreakas natural instinct is maybe to change up at about 7000rpm
09:51.29cpufreakbut it revs to 8400
09:51.36cpufreakand the last 1400 rpm is immense
09:53.11bilarhcool
09:53.23bilarhi see one hooning it up the dual carriage way outside the office every so often
09:53.28bilarhsounds nice :)
09:55.04AndyMillarbilarh: that's probably cpufreak ;)
09:55.22cpufreakantiphase's car sounds pretty awesome too
09:55.31cpufreakneed to find a decent size tunnel to open them both up in
09:55.43bilarhandymillar: not  unless he's been banished to the wilderness that is crawley
09:56.00bilarhblackwall tunnel used to be good until they installed specs
09:56.21cpufreakone place which is great is the cchannel tunnel trains
09:56.40cpufreakas you have to drive along them  for miles to get to the front of the train nomally
09:56.43cpufreak:p
09:59.17bilarhi'm starting to feel the urge to buy an old e36 m3
09:59.30bilarhand slap a whopping big turbo on it :D
09:59.40bilarhthus completely ruining the original point of the car, of course :P
10:00.22antiphaseTurbos are rubbish except for lorries
10:00.33antiphaseThe have no place on variable speed engines
10:00.41bilarh*yawn*
10:01.53cpufreakno no no no no
10:02.02cpufreaksupercharge the e36 engine
10:02.04cpufreakmuch better
10:02.19cpufreaka friend did that, and put the 470bhp end result in an e30 m3
10:02.22bilarhi'm a turbo kind of guy
10:02.37bilarh470bhp... i'm thinking 600 :)
10:02.38cpufreak< bilarh> i'm a turbo kind of gay
10:03.18bilarhcpufreak: First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win
10:03.42cpufreakwell no, turbo horsepower are only worth about 0.66 of a real proper horsepower
10:05.07bilarhit feels like a compressor would lead to packaging problems as well
10:05.28bilarhyou'd have to have it aligned with the end of the crank, for example
10:07.36antiphaseI don't know if anyone has ever done a hydraulically driven supercharger
10:08.03antiphaseThere's loads of room around inline engines anyway
10:10.03bilarhi just don't like super chargers, i prefer turbo's myself
10:10.21bilarhi like the kick in the back of the boost coming in
10:11.07cpufreakyou get the kick in the back from booting it in a car with a decent amount of torque
10:11.25cpufreakeven my tiny little shitty 4 litre flatplanecrank v8 does that
10:11.34bilarh<PROTECTED>
10:14.55antiphaseI'm sure it's lovely in the wet to have your 2 litre rice cooker unpredicatbly start developing 4 times as much torque as the inappropriately large turbo spools up
10:15.07antiphaseI think I'll take the big lump and less pressure myself :P
10:15.26bilarhwell, it is "exciting" sometimes, yes :P
10:16.05Leedshttp://hk-magazine.com/feature/mrs-ko
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11:54.11dick_turpinWho let the dogs out?
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12:15.24haliwhat httpd module do people use for ddos limiting these days?
12:15.33halimod_evasive seems a bit outdated
12:16.12antiphase1. Contact upstream service provider
12:16.14antiphase2. ...
12:16.17antiphase3. Profit
12:17.01antiphaseWhile good application design might help yuo out, there's nothing you're going to be able to do about excessive traffic that comes down your pipe
12:17.23haliit's more abot rate limiting a poor application design here :)
12:17.49haliif users hit a page in our app it kicks off about 10 fairly heavy historics sql queries, if they hit the page 10 times in a short time.... boing
12:18.08antiphaseTurn down the maximum number of apache children/threads and watch your customers slowly leave
12:18.27cpufreakfix the application design
12:18.37cpufreakor cache that page
12:19.15halithis is the only page we can't cache as it's got live trade data on it
12:19.37haliand we sell it as real time (yeap)
12:20.21haliits going to a jboss instance now, im tempted just to encap it in a little php/perl wrapper that manages the concurrency
12:21.04cpufreakbut if you refresh it from cache once a second
12:21.09cpufreakthat way it _is_ real time
12:21.16antiphaseSplit the page elements out
12:21.37cpufreakeven if you refreshed it from cache every 5 seconds, its still close enough to real time
12:21.59cpufreakremember 'live' tv broadcasts are often delayed by up to 30 seconds
12:22.17halionly one element, a soap feed... but if i do my little wrapper i can cache it in apache memory for 1 second..
12:22.46halii could potentially even do it in mod_cache
12:22.55antiphasemod_cache is made of cheese
12:22.56cpufreakif you're using apache as a reverse proxy
12:23.02cpufreakwhy not just use varnish
12:23.34haliit's a reverse proxy yes, not that many hits.. perhaps 2000 per second on a bad day
12:23.56halimost of which just return a 100 byte xml reply
12:25.15halihm, vcl in varnish looks pretty good
12:25.28cpufreakvarnish, it makes thigns shiny
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12:45.17AndyMillarvarnishes cpufreak
12:51.43bilarhdoes that make him a shiny knob? :S
12:53.22cpufreakeww
12:55.54AndyMillarnow that was unnecessary
12:56.32bilarh;)
13:02.42dick_turpinbilarh: Bad bilarh bad boy bad boy
13:02.52bilarhhey what was that site you sent me earlier
13:02.53AndyMillardick_turpin: careful, he likes that
13:02.58bilarhi had to close the window
13:03.07bilarhi ran out of terminals :(
13:03.18dick_turpinbilarh: Bwahahaha I bet you liked it
13:03.24bilarhlemon something was't it
13:03.28bilarhi didn't even get a chance to look at it
13:03.37bilarhmy internet is busted at home, and i'm not looking at something you send me at work
13:03.42bilarhknows better than that
13:03.52dick_turpinyes, its waaaay to naughty for here
13:04.09bilarhsend it again, and i'll email it to myself
13:04.57antiphaseJust Google lemonparty
13:05.03dick_turpinhttp://lemonparty.org
13:06.01AndyMillaroh is that really necessary?
13:06.30AndyMillarhttp://www.meatspin.com is the more fun competition
13:06.31dick_turpinAndyMillar: Made you look made you stare made your mother cut your hair
13:08.25antiphasehttp://www.phonejapan.com/
13:10.09dick_turpinantiphase: Eueww x2 vomit and kiddy pron
13:10.37antiphaseNo idea what you mean
13:13.14dick_turpinantiphase: Hey was it you who had that line about top posting? "Outlook puts the cursor at the top of the page" Something about shitting in your pants or something?
13:14.31antiphaseIt's possible. It could also have been Martin Brooks, who is a vocal opponent to it
13:16.12dick_turpinBugger I should have saved it, it was brilliant something like "Just because my arsehole is in my pants don't mean I have to shit in them" something along those lines
13:17.27cpufreakantiphase: see yahooim
13:19.00antiphaseI appear only to have sent 400 emails since 2005. None of them said that in though
13:21.41dick_turpinantiphase: Hm sounded like your sort of thing
13:23.21dick_turpinThere was a mini flame war about top posting (As usual) not sure if it was a mailed response or it was a comment here in the channel
13:26.15wethrinOutlook's quoting *style* discourages anything but top posting
13:27.25AndyMillarwhat? a flame war on the mailing list? ;)
13:27.35dick_turpinwethrin: Maybe I should look in the Archives? Trouble is I cant remember the Subject
13:28.08AndyMillarit is practically every subject
13:28.43dick_turpinShame as it was a brilliant response
13:34.20dick_turpinwethrin: Want the latest story?
13:43.17wethrinGo on
13:46.10dick_turpinSo we have a customer in Gloucester who's system is riddled with viruses. They refused top have anything over the years but things came to a head the other day.
13:46.59dick_turpinWe are an ESET Nod32 reseller so obviously I said to CYB "How many clients and servers has he got now?"
13:47.19dick_turpinCYB "In total he will need 12 licenses"
13:47.29dick_turpinAre you sure?
13:47.38dick_turpinCYB: "Yes"
13:48.24dick_turpinSo we duly sell 15 and install 12 (Pete ever the up selling salesman)
13:49.02dick_turpinCouple of days later everything is infected again and ESET is working it arse off
13:49.21dick_turpin"Are you sure he only has 12?"
13:49.28dick_turpin"Yes"
13:49.46dick_turpin"Well why is active directory saying 19 then?"
13:50.24dick_turpinCYB: "Oh they are on the other site, that shouldn't be a problem should it?"
13:50.55dick_turpinEr they are on the same network, wadda you think tit head!
13:51.36wethrinD'oh
13:52.10dick_turpinwethrin: And these people are supposedly cleverer than me! FFS
13:52.29wethrinThere's no substitute for common sense
13:56.40dick_turpinwethrin: I bet they have Degrees ;-)
13:59.12wethrinprobably :)
13:59.23wethrinAfter all, we know that anyone with a degree can't program.
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14:05.34dick_turpinwethrin: lol
14:06.14wethrinYeah
14:12.12dick_turpinwethrin: You're such a renegade
14:12.41wethrinOh yes.
14:13.56dick_turpinSounds like a group? wethrin and the renegades
14:14.09wethrinIt sounds too folky for my tastes
14:14.21AndyMillarwethrin: a lot of people who went to university with me who are "programmers" are insanely poor
14:14.49wethrinMaybe they should demand NINETY MILLION POUNDS salary.
14:14.53wethrinAs the bare minimum.
14:14.53dick_turpinAnd so they should be sponging of the state or parents
14:24.42dick_turpinwethrin: Wanna hear me froth at the mouth about Engineers? (This story just happened by the way)
14:25.43wethringo on
14:27.58dick_turpinHave a customers laptop that appears to have the classic inverter board problem, OK so I get one for £15 + £10 del and charge £70 making £45 profit
14:28.15wethrinOuch.
14:28.25dick_turpinHe then comes to me "Um its not the inverter board its the screen"
14:29.17dick_turpinSo a screen is £75 we phone customer and say "Its gonna cost £155.00 in total"
14:30.04dick_turpinBut when I do the math for transport fitting blah blah blah we will now make £5 which is not worth a pee in the wind
14:31.14dick_turpinSo I give the Engineer a bit of a shoeing and say "Lemme have a look at it" jiggle the wire and f'eck me it works!
14:31.24wethrinHeh.
14:31.29wethrinDid you then charge him £20?
14:31.59dick_turpinKicked him in the gonads till his degree went numb
14:34.08wethrinyay
14:34.10dick_turpinNearly lost me all my profit
14:36.30dick_turpinMind you obviously I will not be pretending we have changed the screen and charging the £155 making £130.00 profit, that would be unprofessional ;-)
14:36.54wethrincould make a rude comment here, but won't
14:37.40dick_turpin:-)
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18:28.24lampuserany mac users in house
18:29.06ArmandNah, they're hiding..
18:38.11londonmet050#join osx
18:38.11londonmet050oops
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