| 07:56.49 | Mohan | morning all |
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| 08:46.01 | boudiccas | morn |
| 08:52.57 | Armand | Morning, boudiccas. :) |
| 08:53.42 | boudiccas | morning |
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| 08:55.26 | Armand | How's things? |
| 09:02.11 | boudiccas | pretty good, just waiting for the courier to arrive with my new printer |
| 09:04.02 | Armand | :) |
| 09:04.14 | Armand | I'm waiting to start a remote maintenance.. |
| 09:04.21 | Armand | Also, doing jobsearch. |
| 09:06.31 | boudiccas | not another one! there seem to be about 20 people going for each job that i apply for, its most disheartening |
| 09:06.53 | Armand | I know.. |
| 09:07.12 | boudiccas | and i cant start training for my new job until 22/11 |
| 09:07.40 | Armand | >_< |
| 09:07.52 | Armand | I'm still waiting to do my MCP exam. |
| 09:07.56 | Armand | *for WinXP. |
| 09:08.05 | boudiccas | but it will give time for my CRB to come through which is an advantage |
| 09:08.37 | boudiccas | stupid pile of steaming horse turds! thast what i think of WinXP |
| 09:09.58 | boudiccas | and i hold similar views in W7 |
| 09:10.18 | Armand | It's commonplace.. essential for 1st Line in a Winduhs environment.. and forms part of the MCSE I'm going for. |
| 09:11.01 | boudiccas | what does MCSE stand for please? |
| 09:11.43 | boudiccas | somethign Community Support Engineer? |
| 09:11.49 | Armand | MS Certified Systems Engineer |
| 09:12.36 | boudiccas | ah right, i suppose its essential then for you to be au fait with XP, and w7 |
| 09:12.40 | yaMatt | MS don't believe in Community Support in quite the same way as Ubuntu |
| 09:12.54 | Armand | lol |
| 09:13.10 | Armand | Not Win7, just yet.. although I am dealing with it occasionally. |
| 09:13.11 | boudiccas | and to a lesser extent w98 and w2k |
| 09:13.44 | boudiccas | i still reckon that w2k was the best of them all |
| 09:14.05 | yaMatt | but what about Vista and Me? |
| 09:15.06 | Armand | >_< |
| 09:15.09 | boudiccas | me is a member of the steaming horse turds, and vista the less said about the better |
| 09:15.18 | Armand | gags yaMatt with a sweaty sock.. |
| 09:15.45 | yaMatt | so Microsoft are saying they're not as important? |
| 09:15.53 | boudiccas | gags yaMatt with a scrotum!!! |
| 09:16.14 | boudiccas | after all, thast what a sweaty sack is :)))) |
| 09:16.15 | yaMatt | boudiccas, your scrotum won't stop me! |
| 09:16.25 | boudiccas | i dont have a scrotum |
| 09:17.17 | yaMatt | that's probably why then |
| 09:20.33 | Armand | O_O |
| 09:21.54 | boudiccas | yaMatt, what need have i of a scrotum? i've got nothing to put in one, and that is where the male brain is |
| 09:22.19 | antiphase | Microsoft have got a nerve calling people who put paper in printers and reboot Windows machines "engineers" |
| 09:22.54 | yaMatt | boudiccas, you could use one to store the male brains you collect |
| 09:24.25 | yaMatt | antiphase, i'm sure it's a little more complicated than that |
| 09:24.37 | yaMatt | you have to know WHEN you put more paper in and WHEN to reboot |
| 09:24.48 | boudiccas | but i dont collect them, i leave for others to do, people like you yaMatt |
| 09:25.29 | boudiccas | it all sounds highly specious to me |
| 09:25.57 | yaMatt | i do have quite a selection |
| 09:26.04 | boudiccas | REBOOT is easy, several times a day when you're playing a good game |
| 09:26.42 | boudiccas | thats all windows is good for, a games machine, and i admit, thast where linux falls down |
| 09:27.57 | boudiccas | and if i had a windows box thats all i'd use it for |
| 09:28.08 | yaMatt | and when your screen turns blue with some white incomprehensible text |
| 09:28.15 | boudiccas | reboot |
| 09:28.19 | yaMatt | that's Windows little way of letting you know it's gotten bored |
| 09:28.27 | boudiccas | teehee |
| 09:29.04 | boudiccas | yaMatt, what area of the globe are you from? i have you down as from the states |
| 09:29.19 | yaMatt | not at all, I'm from London |
| 09:29.29 | yaMatt | currently Wimbledon to be more precise |
| 09:29.33 | antiphase | Yee haa, I've gotten a new bunch of steers, guys |
| 09:29.39 | Armand | O_O |
| 09:29.48 | boudiccas | really? you've picked up some of the americanisms then |
| 09:30.04 | yaMatt | heheh, from talking to a lot of them probably :D |
| 09:30.06 | antiphase | or some very olde Englyshe |
| 09:30.28 | Armand | You have my sympathy, yaMatt |
| 09:30.30 | boudiccas | that's Windows little way of letting you know it's >>>gotten<<< bored |
| 09:30.54 | yaMatt | I hadn't realised that was an americanism |
| 09:31.03 | yaMatt | it's just easier to type :P |
| 09:31.28 | yaMatt | Armand, thanks :) |
| 09:31.31 | boudiccas | yup, its not common parlance unless teh chavs have taken it over |
| 09:32.49 | boudiccas | i should be having my massage about now, except i cant go out because of the citilink man coming wiht my printer |
| 09:33.17 | yaMatt | what should I be using instead of gotten? |
| 09:33.25 | wethrin | got ? |
| 09:33.47 | boudiccas | anyway, i'm going to do something important if i could only remember what it is |
| 09:34.01 | wethrin | or become |
| 09:34.21 | yaMatt | ah, right |
| 09:34.29 | yaMatt | must be poor education |
| 09:34.30 | morsing | yaMatt: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091007023056AAPXEQ6 |
| 09:35.09 | yaMatt | http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gotten?rdfrom=Gotten |
| 09:35.20 | antiphase | Merkin English is guaranteed to take over eventually because that's what people learn outside of the UK |
| 09:35.41 | antiphase | We'll all be turning on faucets and putting stuff in our trunks, while wearing pants |
| 09:36.01 | wethrin | I wear pants. I also wear trousers on top of them. |
| 09:36.17 | yaMatt | morsing, I actually *got* a B in English GCSE |
| 09:36.33 | wethrin | English GCSE doesn't teach you anything useful about the language, anyway |
| 09:36.43 | yaMatt | no, not really |
| 09:36.48 | wethrin | it's all reading comprehension, and that sort of rubbish |
| 09:37.09 | yaMatt | some of it was watching films too |
| 09:37.14 | wethrin | you need to do a non-English language to get any appreciation for grammar and sentence construction |
| 09:37.52 | yaMatt | yeah, I never studied any language properly |
| 09:37.56 | antiphase | Bonjour innit |
| 09:38.00 | yaMatt | French is the only GCSE I failed |
| 09:38.15 | morsing | wethrin: I wouldn't know what a GCSE contains... For obvious reasons |
| 09:38.16 | yaMatt | bloody ineffective teacher |
| 09:44.02 | yaMatt | i wonder if my school's website is still IE5 compatible only |
| 09:44.48 | yaMatt | whey, it even lets you right click now |
| 09:46.38 | morsing | Isn't it brilliant how Aviva only let you register claims over the phone or Internet - and ignore both? Even the "Contact us - complaint" button is a web-form, which they'll probably ignore... |
| 09:47.19 | wethrin | of course. Insurance companies are all scammers |
| 09:50.04 | Armand | yaMatt: lol |
| 09:50.11 | Armand | I failed spanish, on purpose. :P |
| 09:50.26 | yaMatt | Armand, didn't like the teacher? |
| 09:50.45 | yaMatt | wethrin, i see it as enforced gambling |
| 09:51.05 | yaMatt | you pay a certain amount a year/month and you get a payout when an unlikely event occurs |
| 09:56.00 | yaMatt | i wonder what the odds are on you for crashing a car, or flooding your home |
| 09:56.42 | morsing | yaMatt: What are the odds of breaking a mirror, having a copy made for £150 and breaking the copy within 24h? |
| 09:56.50 | morsing | :( |
| 10:00.31 | Armand | yaMatt: No.. not at all.. she was quite fit, actually. |
| 10:00.47 | Armand | I just didn't see the point in doing Spanish.. no use to me. |
| 10:04.45 | yaMatt | ah, see what you should have done is feign being bad at it, then you would have got extra help |
| 10:05.06 | Armand | Damn you... |
| 10:05.13 | Armand | Why didn't *I* think of that? |
| 10:05.15 | Armand | >_< |
| 10:07.54 | yaMatt | see, the bad kids in school had the right idea |
| 10:09.09 | boudiccas | yaMatt, its the Hawthorn Effect |
| 10:09.34 | yaMatt | yeah, i was about to mention that, i hadn't realised it had a name |
| 10:10.52 | ChoHag | "Sometimes I think environmentalists all read those distopia novels and thought they were really utopian novelsâ¦" |
| 10:10.52 | boudiccas | very important psychology experiment of the 1950's i think it was |
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| 11:34.31 | mindbender | yaMatt: i'm with you on "gotten" though i'm nowhere being british. |
| 11:34.36 | mindbender | see |
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| 11:34.44 | mindbender | *nowhere near being british |
| 11:35.05 | mindbender | so my word wouldn't count |
| 11:35.18 | dick_turpin | Afternoon all |
| 11:37.57 | Armand | Dafternoon, dick_turpin. :) |
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| 12:54.59 | boudiccas | right, i'm now the proud owner of a hp4580, it scans and prints so i'm a happy bunny now |
| 12:59.27 | z00dax | boudiccas: going into the currency production industry then ? |
| 12:59.46 | z00dax | ( does the hp4580 do dual-sided copy+print ? ) |
| 13:00.49 | boudiccas | the install disc that came with it is for windows and macs so is uselss for linux, however it prints through a usb connection and it was automatically seen and just needed to eb setup as the default printer |
| 13:01.13 | bilarh | boudiccas: \o/ |
| 13:01.18 | boudiccas | z00dax, i dont think it does dual sided, leastways if it does i havent found out how to do it yet |
| 13:02.05 | boudiccas | bilarh, and all because i have an ECA to write na dprint out to sen doff to Milton Keynes |
| 13:04.04 | bilarh | z00dax: just turn the paper around... the bank of england recently printed 200 billion in fake money, doubt anyone will notice if boudiccas slips another couple of fake tenners into the system :-\ |
| 13:04.25 | bilarh | boudiccas: it'd been cheeaper to go to your library :P |
| 13:05.38 | boudiccas | bilarh, yes, but i needed a printer anyway, and one with a builtin scanner is very nice. |
| 13:06.16 | bilarh | true :) |
| 13:06.18 | bilarh | does the scanner work? :D |
| 13:06.29 | boudiccas | yes |
| 13:07.00 | bilarh | ok :) |
| 13:07.01 | boudiccas | it acts like a photocopier and prints out your scan |
| 13:07.16 | boudiccas | i havent yet found out how to save the scan to h/d |
| 13:07.54 | boudiccas | now to have dinner :) |
| 13:12.13 | yaMatt | scanners seem to work pretty simply in Linux |
| 13:12.30 | yaMatt | xsane is horrible, but it works |
| 13:12.50 | yaMatt | simplescan is pretty good, but it's support seems to be a little bit more tempremental |
| 13:19.53 | dick_turpin | Simplescan +1 |
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| 14:09.58 | resudaed | afternoon |
| 14:11.51 | boudiccas | well spotted that man, have a brownie point! :) |
| 14:21.05 | resudaed | do you guys still have regular meets? |
| 14:23.53 | wethrin | hey resudaed |
| 14:24.15 | resudaed | hey, I'm back (at least for the time being). |
| 14:24.17 | wethrin | there were for a time, but I think Ciaran (current organiser) ran out of people to talk |
| 14:24.17 | antiphase | has a conventional meat |
| 14:24.50 | resudaed | so not even general pub meets? |
| 14:25.07 | wethrin | rarely |
| 14:25.12 | wethrin | but there's a Lonix meet just been announced |
| 14:26.48 | dick_turpin | pff Lonix |
| 14:35.09 | boudiccas | hey dick_turpin i got a new printer and scanner/photocopier and they work very well |
| 14:36.08 | dick_turpin | I saw |
| 14:36.21 | boudiccas | and i'm cocka hoop with it all. it took more time working out how to correctly put teh ink cartridges in than configuring it! |
| 14:36.56 | dick_turpin | Hugs |
| 14:38.05 | boudiccas | and if it wasnt for the advice of people here then i wouldn't have thought of going online for one. but amazon came up trumps and i'm very pleased with it all. and now i'll shut up about it :)))) |
| 14:39.02 | dick_turpin | You have your moment you clever girl :-) |
| 14:41.04 | boudiccas | and because the old printer still had plenty of toner left in it i'm advertising it on freecycle and am hoping that someone wants it and is going to come and collect it from me |
| 14:41.50 | boudiccas | i'll also get rid of a 17" colour monitor that i've got which is surplus to my requirements by the same way |
| 14:42.14 | Armand | boudiccas... |
| 14:42.34 | Armand | CRT or LCD ? |
| 14:42.36 | boudiccas | yes Armand |
| 14:42.38 | boudiccas | CRT |
| 14:42.44 | Armand | Dang. |
| 14:42.52 | antiphase | Boat anchor |
| 14:42.58 | boudiccas | :) |
| 14:43.02 | Armand | it will float .. ?! |
| 14:43.41 | boudiccas | if it was a 17" LCD then i'd still be using it :) |
| 14:43.50 | Armand | I need one myself. ;( |
| 14:44.18 | boudiccas | join freecycle you might get lucky |
| 14:44.44 | Armand | Already on it. :) |
| 14:47.48 | dick_turpin | Take the tube out stick a cusion in and its a nice home for your pussy |
| 14:47.58 | dick_turpin | cushion |
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| 15:33.36 | dick_turpin | http://www.next.co.uk/shopping/electric/carryover/10/13 |
| 16:13.18 | boudiccas | you leave my pussy out of it! you promised you wouldnt say anyhtiung about it dick_turpin |
| 16:13.41 | boudiccas | :) |
| 16:15.55 | dick_turpin | :-) |
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