IRC log for #gllug on 20091112

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00:49.08lejocelynhi
00:49.39lejocelynmy G3 just died :'(, is there people good in electronics in GLLUG ?
00:57.21wethrinDepends what's died in it
00:57.33lejocelynthat's the question
00:57.47lejocelynI think it's related to the alimentation
00:57.50wethrinDoes it turn on?
00:57.54lejocelynno
00:58.03lejocelynI just changed the motherboard battery
00:58.04wethrinNo sounds whatsoever?
00:58.16lejocelynit worked once, not anymore
00:58.20lejocelynno sounds at all
00:58.31wethrinTried a different power cable?
00:59.15lejocelyn:(, no :D
00:59.19lejocelyn2 secs
01:00.22wethrinsometimes it's as simple as the fuse in your power cable's gone
01:00.51lejocelynI tried, it"s not that
01:02.07wethrinCould be power supply, could be motherboard, then
01:02.28wethrinPut the old battery back in?
01:02.50lejocelynyep, doesn't work
01:04.11wethrinHm. Time to break out the spares, then. Or the multimeter
01:04.47lejocelynI don't have one, that's onee of the problem
01:05.31wethrinit's worth having one :)
01:05.58wethrinSo, you put the new battery in; it worked okay. Then you turned it off, and it never came back on again?
01:06.08lejocelyntrue, then the problem is learning to use it
01:06.16lejocelynwethrin: exactly
01:06.29lejocelynI turned it off and unplugged it
01:06.51lejocelynbecause I noticed that it was the first time I unplugged it
01:07.37wethrincould be something's gone in your PSU, then
01:08.27wethrinthen again, a G3 is old
01:08.33lejocelynI found it :)
01:08.48wethrinknocked some cable out?
01:09.37lejocelynknocked ? sorry, my english isn't very good
01:09.42lejocelyntested you mean ?
01:10.17wethrinno - did a cable fall out when you were inside the computer?
01:10.21wethrinFound the problem?
01:10.42lejocelynI don't think so
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01:19.39lejocelynwethrin: ok, I'm tired, I may be have found some help on #london hack space
01:19.45lejocelynI'll find out tomorrow
01:19.49lejocelynthanks
01:19.57lejocelynand see thou
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09:31.32Mohanmorning
09:34.25DiscordianUKMorning
09:37.27zeroXtenmorning
09:50.59AndyMillarmornin
09:53.24antiphaseWurd up homiez
09:53.46DiscordianUKhigh 5's antiphase
10:03.28ChoHagHas anybody noticed that the in win7 advert "I asked for less clicks. Now it takes less clicks", the c and l run together?
10:04.09ChoHag(less vs. fewer notwithstanding)
10:13.39zeroXtenheh, will keep an eye out for it next time
10:14.48zeroXteni was thinking of getting stickers made from http://www.sophos.com/blogs/chetw/g/2009/11/03/windows-7-vulnerable-8-10-viruses/ and sticking them on the "I asked for security ...." posters :)
10:16.22ChoHag"Windows 7 users need not feel left out. They can still participate in the ZBot botnet with a side of fake anti-virus."
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11:44.22ChoHagstill hasn't learnt not to hit ctrl-alt-bs to delete a word.
11:47.31wethrinHa ha
12:22.08AndyMillarctrl+w
12:31.44wethrinClose window?
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12:33.55wethrinyo dick_turpin
12:34.33dick_turpinwethrin: Hey baby whats cooking?
12:34.42wethrinMy job's running out!
12:36.01dick_turpinwethrin: Oh god no? Mind you your better than me according to the TV the other night once you've hit 40 your on the scrap head so they should have slung me on that 8 years ago
12:36.27wethrinHeh, but didn't you hear that unemployment in 16-24 year olds is at an all time high?
12:36.32wethrin(not that I fit into either brakcet)
12:38.10dick_turpinYeah that was gonna be my next statement and apparently less than a quarter of those will ever find gainful employment through out the rest of their lives seeing as they will be scarred by the experience!
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12:44.58halithere will always be it jobs in the city
12:45.17dick_turpinwethrin: Oi so whats the situation? How long you got? Have you got anything in the pipeline
12:46.13wethrinTill the end of January. And possibly.
12:46.23wethrinI just need to get my arse in gear before the 20th
12:46.40bilarhwethrin: :(
12:46.43bilarhsucks dude
12:46.45wethrinmmmm, free time
12:49.00dick_turpinwethrin: You mustn't look at it that way you could end up with 10 years free time
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12:50.34wethrinTrue
12:56.25dick_turpinHere's a good one was sat watching the TV Wednesday night about 6pm, keep in mind my misses works for Foxes Biscuits, she was due in at 10pm that night, when an item came on "Foxes announced job cuts at their Uttoxetter site today" my misses knew nothing about it so I'm dreading seeing her when I get home
12:56.57wethrinoh dear
12:58.15bilarheveryones losing their jobs at the moment
12:58.33AndyMillar:/
12:59.00halispoke to a friend of mine, postgrad currently looking for work.. he had several offers from banks
12:59.17haliRBS offered him a 6k handshake bonus
12:59.31halifor just joining, even if he leaves in a month
13:00.07wethrinOoh, can I have that?
13:00.16wethrinSo I can join, get 6k, then tell them to get stuffed?
13:00.24haliif you want to work for rbs then probably :)
13:00.31haliwethrin: and just stay your notice yes
13:00.44dick_turpinWhere do I apply?
13:00.58halidunno, the rbs post graduate scheme jada thingy somewhere
13:01.02bilarhstill, not everyone is a post grad student looking to join a bank :P
13:01.09wethrinI don't want to work for rbs
13:01.14bilarhback in the real world, people are losing their jobs left right and centre
13:01.24wethrinbut for 6k, I'll do it for a month
13:01.27haliof all the banks i work with, rbs seems to have the highest level of IT skills
13:01.28dick_turpinbilarh: Shut your face and help me fill out this application form
13:01.37hali(except everyone who came from the ABN side, they sucked essex balls)
13:01.47bilarhwhy don't you just have another one of those white lightning bottles, dear
13:02.16DiscordianUKIsn't RBS mainly in Edinburgh? I used to know some of their contractors
13:02.55halithey have 15k people in the city square mile around liverpool street
13:03.10DiscordianUKahhh I see
13:05.40dick_turpinhali: Who sucks Essex balls? Is it a female? I'm from Essex :-)
13:11.17ChoHagAndyMillar: I'm in the habit of C-h for delete and C-M-h for delete word, both of which work.
13:12.12ChoHagHowever I'm also in the habit of bs for delete, which sometimes blindly becomes C-bs, and C-M-bs then deletes a word whether it wants to be deleted or not.
13:12.41halidick_turpin: 90% of ABN Amro IT staff in London was from essex .. classic geezers ... "alright mate, yeah that's well cushty"
13:12.59boudiccasChoHag, bull sh*t for delete???? is that right?
13:13.22ChoHagNo...
13:13.47ChoHagbs as in backspace
13:13.53DiscordianUKI have the backspace key bound to ctrl-h and delete to ctrl-\
13:14.16ChoHagHow does that work?
13:14.24dick_turpinbilarh: How do you say that you promise not to pinch any money on this RBS application form? Also I'm filling it out like 30 times so I can apply under different names up and down the country. Given recent evidence I doubt they'll check up on the details
13:14.31ChoHagC-\ doesn't delete, it just kills. Hard.
13:14.58ChoHagdick_turpin: Just say you're a banker, then they expect you to pinch money.
13:15.24bilarhdick_turpin: "i promise not to nik ur shit?"
13:16.21DiscordianUKIndeed
13:16.41DiscordianUKThat's what I want the delete key to do
13:17.04ChoHagOh.
13:17.10ChoHagThat's pretty harsh isn't it?
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13:19.18DiscordianUKHmm maybe
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13:20.57dick_turpinbilarh: I've put "I have my own shovel for securely depositing savers money in the back garden" do you reckon they like that?
13:21.59bilarhhehe :)
13:22.28ChoHagThey wouldn't want you outdoing them.
13:23.32dick_turpinEars-a-fought I wonder if they'll pay me 6k not to apply?
13:23.58wethrinWrite to them and ask them
13:24.21dick_turpinwethrin: You bastard you know I cant write
13:24.28wethrinheh
13:24.33wethrinGet an educashon!
13:24.41wethrinJust dont' get a degree. Because then you won't know stuff.
13:25.54dick_turpinI did try to go to school once but my dad beat me and said "Are you some sort of girl? Get on that Thames Barrier and start bailing"
13:25.59boudiccasgo for it dick_turpin apply and claim your 6k :)
13:26.47boudiccasi wonder if theyd pay me 6k, or even 3k with my nursing qualifications
13:28.54dick_turpinboudiccas: I got paid 2k the other night. When I came home I threw the bag of 10p's down and said "There you are love £2k" The misses said "Who gave you 10p?" Everyone I said :-)
13:31.22bilarhboudiccas: only if your nursing qualifications included courses on deceit and book cooking :P
13:32.02wethrinbooks are best simmered to soften them
13:35.09dick_turpinI do have one of the required assets, I do know a heck of a lot of people so I'm sure I could dig up one or two dodgy contacts in Africa to sell loans to for risky mortgages for which of course he will give me a perfectly legal commission
13:42.46wethrinWell, IRC's being really boring today
13:42.55wethrinI'm disappointed. Not just in you lot. But in other people too.
13:43.02wethrinI might have to do some real work at this point!
13:43.04Armand|Lappylol
13:43.43dick_turpinwethrin: I can tell you about Asus ripping us off if you like?
13:43.52wethrinYes please
13:44.04wethrinMakes a change from you ripping off your customers :-)
13:45.04dick_turpinwethrin: So we have this dogs bollocks gaming laptop G2 or summink, the fuser board has gone which is dead easy to change
13:45.39dick_turpinThey would not send the board out we had to send the laptop which they collect
13:46.00dick_turpinSo they said it would be £87 tad pricey but OK
13:46.16dick_turpinWe got an invoice a few moments ago
13:46.30dick_turpinCollect/Deliver £30
13:46.37dick_turpinLabour £60
13:46.45Armand|Lappyparts?
13:46.47dick_turpinFuser board £7.963
13:46.59dick_turpin£7.96
13:47.03Armand|LappySo, 97 so far..
13:47.08Armand|Lappyand then?
13:47.12wethrinPlus VAT?
13:47.26dick_turpinFFS send me the board we can fit it!
13:47.38Armand|Lappyaaaand theeeeen ?
13:47.39ChoHagMy attempt to turn a cheap pair of headphones with a short wire into a cheap pair of headphones with a long wire, by use of an old network cable, has failed.
13:47.53ChoHagI have no headphones but I do have a lot of colourful wire.
13:47.59Armand|Lappyuse bell wire
13:48.34wethrinheh
13:49.00Armand|LappyChoHag: ANY results at all.. or just dead?
13:49.08ChoHagArmand|Lappy: Dead.
13:49.29ChoHagThe wires inside the speaker wire had nothing insulating them from each other.
13:49.34Armand|LappyO_O
13:49.50ChoHagExcept I think some form of coating on the wire
13:59.02wethrinwhat, like, insulation?
13:59.11ChoHagWell yes.
13:59.22ChoHagBut nothing so simple as plastic sheathing.
13:59.29ChoHagWhich is what I'd expected.
14:08.43dick_turpinwethrin: ROTFLMAO Asus are holding the laptop to ransom until we cough up a credit card (They collected yesterday)
14:09.20wethrinDid you get the initial price in writing?
14:09.35dick_turpinI'm waiting for a photo of it handcuffed to a radiator holding today's copy of the Times or something
14:10.25DiscordianUKhaha
14:11.27dick_turpinwethrin: Yeah the original price (Verbal) was £87
14:12.10dick_turpinI'm considering asking for 'Proof of Life'
14:12.33dick_turpinhas watched these hostage negotiation films
14:12.38wethrinoh. A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
14:12.40wethrinYou know this!
14:13.46dick_turpinwethrin: It is if you make it with me!
14:13.59wethrinuhhuh
14:14.19wethrinYou're a salesperson. I'll ask for things in writing, thankyou
14:14.37boudiccasin triplicate
14:15.51boudiccasone for the salesperson, one for the customer and one for the customers lawyer. that should just about cover things dont you think?
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14:25.16dick_turpinwethrin: We get big Bubba to pay you a visit if you don't cough up
14:32.00ChoHagWhy did Intel remove proper multihead support from their xorg driver?
14:32.04ChoHagThey are a bunch of cocks.
14:32.24ChoHagIs there a graphics card/chip manufacturer which isn't staffed entirely by cocks?
14:35.26wethrinNo. HTH.
14:35.45ChoHagBastards.
14:36.49halimatrix?
14:36.51halimatrox*
14:37.01halithey charge like 900 squid for a card these days though
14:43.02ChoHagHey there's a distributor down the road from my house.
14:44.48ChoHagShame I don't have any ocean critters available for trade.
14:47.28antiphaseNvidia stuff always works for me
14:47.45antiphaseYou hippies that don't like binary drivers can all sit there with one screen that doesn't work properly
14:47.53ChoHagHah!
14:47.59ChoHagI have TWO screens that don't work properly.
14:48.52AndyMillarChoHag: intel works for me with 2 screens :)
14:49.17ChoHagBut not two independent screens, like it used to be.
14:51.28AndyMillardoesn't follow
14:51.47ChoHagYou have one big screen on two monitors. I want two screens on two monitors.
14:51.54DiscordianUKthat'd be :0 and :1 as opposed to spanning with xinerama
14:51.57ChoHagIntel won't do that any more because they are monkeys.
14:52.13ChoHagDiscordianUK: :0.0 and :0.1, but otherwise yeah.
14:52.26DiscordianUKyeah sorry yes
14:52.36DiscordianUKI used to do that
14:52.49zeroXtenantiphase: using compiz at all?
14:53.41AndyMillarChoHag: ah, you mean so you can't drag windows between them and so?
14:53.58AndyMillar(i.e. like ATI)
14:54.02ChoHagYes.
14:54.08DiscordianUKThis laptop has an intel chipset I could do dual head on it
14:55.16antiphaseI hate composited displays
14:56.12antiphaseThey're slow and annoying. I like my windows to remain parallel-sided, and my virtual desktops to switch instantly without sliding or some disroted 3D crap ruining my day
14:56.16dick_turpinAhahahaha I was waiting for that my thoughts was "Who dares prod the sleeping beast with the desktop bling stick"
14:56.36antiphases /disroted/distorted/
14:56.46antiphasedefeats shitbot
14:57.14ChoHagThe only advantage to composited displays is transparancy and shadows, and only because they're fun not because they're useful.
14:57.19ChoHagThe price is way too high.
15:03.01Armand|LappyI don't have any issues with mine.. runs smooth as silk.
15:04.16ChoHagPah. Kids these days. "/bin/sh redirected to a feature reduced version of bash which is called "dash"'
15:05.10Armand|LappyI haven't run it on the 5200 yet. :P
15:07.18zeroXteni find transparency very useful. handy with terminals open over eachother, if i need to be able to see stuff behind etc.
15:07.37antiphaseGet more screen and virtual desktops
15:07.43antiphaseI don't overlap anything generally
15:07.47DiscordianUKI have each app in a seperate desktop
15:08.29zeroXtenmeh.. each to their own i guess. I already have 6 desktops most of which get used regularly.
15:08.55antiphaseI've got 10 desktops on each of 2 monitors :P
15:09.01antiphasetbh I don't really use most of them
15:09.09DiscordianUKI have 8
15:09.13zeroXtenscreens are a bit small I have to admin, one 15" lappy screen and a 22" dell monitor
15:09.32zeroXtens/admin/admit/
15:09.34dick_turpinI used to be a big Compiz, Beryl, Compiz-fusion, compiz fanboy but gave it all up as a complete and utter waste of eye candy time
15:09.52zeroXtenheh
15:25.17dick_turpinwethrin: Bearing in mind we are an independent ISP I took great pleasure in making a cup of tea and making CYB drink out of a Bytemark mug
15:26.13wethrinheh
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15:59.43ChoHagCherry coke tastes reasonably nice if you don't drink it for about 10 years.
16:04.14rhoweFavourite cheap SSL certificate provider?
16:04.34rhoweUKFSN isn't working for me and Jason hasn't replied to my ticket
16:05.23ChoHagJason hasn't replied?
16:05.26ChoHagNever!
16:05.32ChoHagHe's always on the ball.
16:13.33rhowe:)
16:30.16ChoHagWhy does the pimp that got me this contract want to meet us all?
16:31.45dick_turpinbilarh: Cheeky peek for you http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=6320 sfw
16:39.18bilarhdick_turpin: powm is never worksafe
16:41.39dick_turpinIf thats your level of porn you need to get out more my friend
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17:57.33AndyMillarthat site is wrong :(
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