IRC log for #gllug on 20100126

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08:35.56ChoHagI wish people wouldn't ask if I want butter when what they really mean is margarine.
08:36.11ChoHagAwful stuff.
08:44.18wethrinI disapprove of this time of the morning
08:44.20wethrinThat is all
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09:37.37antiphaseThe way to avoid margarine is to eat foodstuffs which are not spread with it. Like bacon, sausages and eggs
09:38.01ChoHagThat's what I had. In a roll.
09:38.59halimorning
09:41.07ChoHagBah. Stupid phone. Only allows 4 ptys by default.
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10:16.03ChoHagHow does yum decide what $releasever, $basearch etc. are?
10:17.33antiphaseHow does a car engine work?
10:17.52ChoHagControlled explosions.
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12:28.45ChoHagDo not attempt to gargle with hot chocolate.
12:30.10halimost people wouldn't
12:30.20ChoHagI just did.
12:30.23ChoHagIt was ... stupid.
12:31.19haliokay, fucking azul appliances, we upgraded the firmware and now we have jvm crashes every couple of day
12:31.22halidays*
12:32.23halican't wait for G1 to get mature so we can run large heaps on a normal sun jvm
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13:11.55dick_turpinAfternoon All
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13:28.29dick_turpinantiphase: What nothing horrid today? Are you ill? Do I need to poke you with a stick? has bilarh's armpit sent you into a coma?
13:28.55antiphaseIt's very quiet. I need material to work with
13:29.23dick_turpinantiphase: lol
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14:55.26dick_turpinSupplier: Hi Pete you know that Tower Server  you ask me for, what about a Rackmount?
14:55.50dick_turpinIf I wanted a f'ecking Rackmount I'd have asked for one
14:56.07dick_turpinSupplier: OK well I have a tower here
14:56.20dick_turpinWhats the spec?
14:56.59boudiccasand .....................???
14:57.12dick_turpinSupplier: Dual Xeon 2.8, no Memory, no hard drives........
14:57.25dick_turpinare you taking the piss?
14:57.48dick_turpinSupplier: Ooh thats not good is it?
14:58.00dick_turpinErm no not really
14:59.14boudiccasand he wants an ongoing business relationship with you?
15:02.11dick_turpinboudiccas: Its a refurbished supplier I've known him about 7 years now, I know how to deal with them they are like scrap merchants you gotta watch like a hawk
15:02.51boudiccassounds like a right muppet!
15:06.18dick_turpinboudiccas: No gorgeous you have to read between the lines, basically what he's done is strip out the memory and HDD's and intended to sell it to someone 'as is' but would have said....
15:06.31dick_turpin"I can do some memory for £20"
15:06.50dick_turpin"and the HDD's lets say £50"
15:07.45DiscordianUKOwned by a lady vicar who used the server only on Sundays?
15:08.33dick_turpinDiscordianUK: Exact-a-mundo
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15:09.26dick_turpinYou'd be amazed at how often they say "Tell ya what I'll sling a keyboard and mouse in"
15:09.45DiscordianUKhaha
15:10.25DiscordianUKgo faster stickers on the racking rails?
15:11.00dick_turpinI have another supplier who is dead proud that on their fliers they have "All power cables supplied" Bwahahaha
15:11.22DiscordianUKchuckles
15:55.58haliyawn
15:56.03halitoday is going very slowly
15:57.28dick_turpinNa but is quiet
16:09.46bilarhi'm busy kickstarting hundreds of machines
16:09.49bilarhjoy
16:11.13haliat least you're busy
16:13.48bilarham indeed, yes
16:13.53bilarhit beats sitting on my arse to be honest
16:14.09dick_turpinI'm busy trying to sell 25 X 2GB USB sticks to a school for the same price as 4GB sticks on our shop! Oops!
16:30.55haliwhat? you're not sitting on your arse when installing stuff?
16:30.57halino dracs?
16:39.35bilarhno this is installing user workstations
16:39.56bilarhfor extra hilarity, the previous admins have had all sorts of partitioning schemes
16:40.02bilarhand i need to preserve one of the filesystems
16:40.17antiphaseWhy are you doing desktop support now?
16:40.18bilarhwhich means that for each machine, i have to log in and compare the partition table to the one in the kickstart
16:40.24bilarhfuck knows
16:40.32wethrindick_turpin: You're selling 25x 2GB stick for the same price as one 4GB stick?
16:52.58dick_turpinwethrin: I know I know I hate our shop I hate it with a vengeance bloody Zen Cart crap
16:53.39DiscordianUKHow much are 25x2Gb sticks?
16:56.00dick_turpinDiscordianUK: Don't you start
16:56.33dick_turpinBloody expensive as you'd expect from me :-)
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18:25.21kjsanyone else have problem with hotmail accepting email from their mail server?
19:01.07antiphaseYou must be a spammer
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