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00:25.39 | z00dax | were had 3" of snow in the last 2 hrs |
00:25.45 | z00dax | we've |
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00:43.19 | z00dax | http://www.karan.org/stuff/snow_2.jpeg :) |
00:43.51 | wethrin | nice |
00:43.56 | wethrin | There's snow up here, too |
00:45.16 | z00dax | i'm guessing you get it slightly more often though |
00:45.26 | wethrin | Well, not so much in Durham city |
00:45.35 | z00dax | dont think I've seen 4 inches of snow here in london, ever |
00:45.38 | wethrin | The Durham dales get it more, but I don't go there often |
00:45.45 | z00dax | ( in the 7 years that I've been here ) |
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08:42.07 | bilarh | uh, snow :S |
08:44.01 | ChoHag | :) |
08:44.39 | bilarh | i was surprised not to find traffic at a stand still this morning |
08:44.57 | bilarh | but in fact, i got in in exactly 60 minutes, which is better than average :D |
08:44.57 | ChoHag | Yeah half a cm of snow. |
08:44.58 | ChoHag | Devastating. |
08:45.42 | bilarh | we've got at least 2 inches :) |
08:46.01 | ChoHag | Almost nothing in SW. |
08:46.06 | ChoHag | It's started up again though. |
08:46.32 | ChoHag | Prince Philip mocked an Army cadet, blinded during a Real IRA bomb attack, by poking fun at his dress sense. |
08:46.35 | ChoHag | As the Queen asked Stephen Menary how much he could see Philip said: "Not a lot, judging by that tie." |
08:46.46 | bilarh | lol |
08:50.18 | ChoHag | Hmm email proposal this morning starts with "... hopefully a firmed up proposal will go out more widely by the end of the week." |
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09:17.12 | Mohan | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/13/AR2009121300007.html?waporef=ak |
09:17.34 | Mohan | Its really funny to see the uses of twitter.. |
09:20.47 | ChoHag | It has uses? |
09:25.08 | Mohan | well someone nerdy is using it for a strange purpose, but the idea is really funny.. |
09:26.22 | Mohan | And that tweet has got 19,500 followers. |
09:27.56 | bilarh | hehe ace idea |
09:33.22 | Mohan | http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Twittering-Office-Chair/ |
09:33.48 | Mohan | It tweets when someone sitting on the chair farts.. |
09:40.44 | hali | hm, fedora directory server is a bit odd |
09:40.53 | hali | i can't even figure out how to set a group GID from the gui |
09:41.53 | antiphase | Use FreeIPA then |
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09:52.10 | ChoHag | It tweets when someone tweets? |
09:52.35 | mikejw | hi dudes |
10:01.37 | hali | ok, works now, i just had to manually add posixGroup to the group before i could set the gidNumber |
10:01.44 | hali | messy |
10:04.43 | antiphase | LDAP fail |
10:09.38 | hali | im not even sure why i was pissing about in the gui, my ldif works perfectly |
10:10.23 | ChoHag | I occasionally get the feeling that I should know how the GUIs of the apps I use/support work. |
10:11.15 | ChoHag | Then after a few minutes I realise that GUIs don't work and go back to the command line. |
10:11.15 | hali | the ldap browser is handy |
10:11.32 | ChoHag | Incidentally, is there a good ldap server? |
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10:21.10 | ChoHag | "Will we be allowed to work from home?" |
10:21.17 | ChoHag | "Of course! You will be expected to work from home â after a full day at the office." |
10:46.22 | antiphase | openldap works, FSVO works |
10:46.53 | ChoHag | Yeah it's that FSVO I'm trying to find an improvement on. |
10:47.51 | antiphase | Microsoft AD |
10:48.03 | AndyMillar | abuses antiphase |
10:56.02 | ChoHag | Somebody calls my [unlisted and unused] landline every morning between 0800 and 0830 and leaves an answering machine message saying "Hello?" |
10:56.43 | bilarh | stay in at 0800-0830 and answer the phone |
10:57.22 | ChoHag | Pah. |
10:57.30 | ChoHag | I'd rather reconfigure asterisk to mess them around. |
10:57.55 | antiphase | "Reconfigure" suggests that you have it configured to begin with |
10:58.11 | ChoHag | Good point. |
10:58.19 | ChoHag | Remashup. |
10:58.27 | antiphase | I was wondering then if you might be one of those weird Linux geeks |
10:58.43 | ChoHag | Not weird enough to make Asterisk work, no. |
11:21.50 | AndyMillar | Asterisk is awesome |
11:24.02 | ChoHag | It's certainly awe inspiring. |
11:25.44 | AndyMillar | ;p |
11:25.54 | AndyMillar | "dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1M | gzip -c > largefile" is taking a while :( |
11:26.14 | antiphase | It won't be a large file either |
11:26.39 | AndyMillar | hmm, that's interesting |
11:26.51 | AndyMillar | it looks like /dev/zero compresses 1000:1 |
11:27.17 | antiphase | More correctly, gzip compresses identical data at up to a 1000:1 ratio |
11:27.27 | AndyMillar | indeed :) |
11:27.34 | AndyMillar | wonders who to email that file to ;) |
11:27.49 | antiphase | Won't it still be 1GB? |
11:28.09 | AndyMillar | mmh, that might be a bit big :p |
11:28.26 | AndyMillar | any spam filter that extracts zipped content... |
11:28.28 | antiphase | Keep it under 50MB and it ought to be accepted by mail servers, and still expand to 50GB :) |
11:28.50 | AndyMillar | wonders if the compressed file will compress |
11:29.03 | cpufreak | http://www.bitclean.com/download.shtml |
11:29.47 | AndyMillar | holy crap that compresses a lot :) |
11:35.50 | AndyMillar | ok, someone please tell me that bitclean.com isn't being serious :/ |
11:41.30 | hali | i use them all the time |
11:41.39 | hali | they come in and sort out my sluggish servers |
11:45.49 | hali | reminds me a bit of a /dev/random problem we had, we had some old hp server that ran out of entropy all the time as the compaq raid controllers do not generate entropy and there was no keyboard/mouse activity.. we used 'remote hands' to enter random text on the keyboard every couple of weeks before we got a fix in |
11:46.07 | hali | (and without entropy SSL stopped working) |
11:46.49 | antiphase | Answer: use /dev/urandom |
11:47.00 | hali | the 'fix' was to symlink random to urandom i think |
11:47.17 | antiphase | Ha ha |
11:50.34 | ChoHag | AndyMillar: If they were being serious, it'd be wrapped up in so much enterpriseness you couldn't tell what it was and it'd come with a 5 figure price tag. |
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12:01.23 | dick_turpin | Shalom |
12:03.50 | antiphase | Chamone |
12:08.19 | dick_turpin | antiphase: You a big Michael Jackson fan then? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cha%27mone |
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12:52.15 | morsing | ibot ping www.google.com |
12:52.16 | ibot | pong www.google.com |
12:52.29 | morsing | ibot lookup www.google.com |
12:53.43 | morsing | ibot nslookup www.google.com |
12:54.52 | dick_turpin | starts to cry |
13:18.56 | dick_turpin | Where's this snow then? The sun is streaming through my window |
13:33.55 | AndyMillar | ah joy |
13:33.59 | AndyMillar | is on the phone to HP again |
13:34.04 | antiphase | Harry Potter? |
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13:34.25 | boudiccas | dick_turpin, we've got about 6 inches of snow, with more threatened as well |
13:36.19 | morsing | Beer |
13:36.34 | hali | i think 6" is what they call 'medium length'? |
13:37.04 | ChoHag | threatened? |
13:37.19 | ChoHag | Like, if you don't pay up snow will fall? |
13:37.46 | ChoHag | Or maybe the other way around - fall any more and I'LL KILL YOU. |
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13:38.27 | ChoHag | Hey was that me? :) |
13:40.55 | AndyMillar | plays hold tennis with HP |
13:41.37 | ChoHag | Let me guess - 30 love. |
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13:49.42 | ChoHag | http://notalwaysright.com/when-open-source-meets-closed-minds/3305 |
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13:54.16 | dick_turpin | boudiccas: You watch we will get snow tonight, the Midlands will be snow bound then until 06.00am on Monday when it will all miraculously disappear so that we can all go to work like the good staff we are :-( |
13:54.51 | ChoHag | I think you typoed slave. |
13:56.20 | dick_turpin | Loads of company's up here have started to shut down for Christmas. So much for the credit crunch |
13:58.12 | antiphase | company's what? |
13:59.03 | bilarh | dick_turpin: are they planning on opening in january again? |
14:00.34 | dick_turpin | bilarh: I suppose so, we close on the 23rd hopefully mid day come back on the 4th |
14:11.43 | bilarh | cool :) |
14:11.55 | bilarh | do you have to use holiday days to cover that? |
14:12.01 | bilarh | or unpaid leave? |
14:12.07 | bilarh | or is it free holiday? |
14:13.53 | dick_turpin | 1 day (24th) the rest is covered |
14:14.11 | bilarh | damn, that's ace :D |
14:14.17 | bilarh | jammy so and so |
14:14.29 | dick_turpin | Actually I'm amazed they usually make us work Christmas eve |
14:14.42 | bilarh | not enough work, maybe? |
14:15.18 | dick_turpin | Actually we are rammed with jobs at the minute |
14:16.12 | boudiccas | we've got 6" of snow here in maidstone, and most of the shops are shut, theres hardly any buses running and the traffic seems to be mostly lorries. the place feels dead, with people walking about very carefully and occasionally falling over. the only real sign of life i saw was kids who'd taken the wheels off their skatebaords and were using them as snowboards |
14:17.04 | dick_turpin | Pah! there's no such thing as snow |
14:17.26 | boudiccas | come down here and you'll see the snow |
14:18.07 | dick_turpin | rushes down to Maidstone to frolic in the snow with boudiccas |
14:18.16 | ChoHag | UK Patent No. GB1405575. A horse-powered car, putting the cart before the horse. To control the speed, the car's accelerator pedal varies the thrust which the horse must exert to reach its feedbox 2. The brake pedal is linked to the horse's halter. The ignition switch can give the horse's posterior a mild electric shock to stimulate it into movement. |
14:18.31 | ChoHag | Suddenly, software patents don't seem so absurd. |
14:18.55 | antiphase | One suspects it is an attempt at humour |
14:19.45 | boudiccas | dick_turpin, i've been out in the snow once today, i aint going out again till monday. you'll have to frolic on your own, i'm being sensible and staying indoors |
14:21.39 | dick_turpin | boudiccas: I'd let you play with me snowballs :-) |
14:22.45 | boudiccas | nah, its too slippy and cold out there, and no i dont want to play with your snowballs thanks |
14:27.55 | dick_turpin | goes of to show bilarh his snowballs as that old tart is always up for a good time. |
14:28.01 | dick_turpin | goes off |
14:46.47 | bilarh | oh well, that's a shame: http://media.gm.com/content/media/us/en/news/news_detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2009/Dec/1218_Saab_Release |
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14:47.41 | bilarh | :'( |
14:47.57 | antiphase | They only made foreign crap anyway |
14:52.22 | ChoHag | You know I said this morning that some company keeps calling at about 8AM and leaves a message saying "Hello? Hello?" |
14:52.41 | ChoHag | Well on a whim I checked, and there is actually a message which says we're not here and to leave a message. |
14:53.01 | ChoHag | "We're not here. Please leave a message. <beep>" "Hello? Hello?" |
14:53.13 | antiphase | Is it one of those special prank calls to relieve you of all your money? |
14:53.21 | ChoHag | shrugs |
14:53.31 | ChoHag | I think something like that. |
14:54.17 | bilarh | oh well, hopefully this means i can pick up a cheap as chips saab :D |
14:54.35 | ChoHag | bilarh: Buying a car at auction? |
14:54.48 | bilarh | no i was hoping that i could do something like MG :) |
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15:35.34 | antiphase | Sell out to the Chinese? |
15:40.53 | bilarh | no sell off their remaining cars dirt cheap |
15:41.48 | antiphase | Think of how much you could save!!! |
15:42.15 | bilarh | i'm thinking of how much i could not spend :P |
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