IRC log for #gllug on 20101105

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04:50.08LeedsI know nobody is awake, but I'll leave this for possible later answers... anyone got any thoughts on FOSDEM?
07:15.43Copei will be there
07:15.46Copeas will helena
07:15.48Copeprolly
07:16.12Copewhere prolly mean as long as it doesn't clash with something else like half term
07:16.37Cope5-6 feb
07:16.50Copeyeah that doesn't look like it clashes
07:17.02Copei'd say 99% certain we'll be there
08:10.20Leedscan't say with any likelihood, but I came up with a possible CNY itinerary this morning which happens to put me in Brussels on the weekend of FOSDEM ;)
08:10.39Leedsas well as a few days in London, a few days in Amsterdam, and 1/2 a day in Helsinki on the way
08:16.46bilarhhelsinki is nice usually
08:16.53bilarhbut not sure what it's like in autumn if it rains :S
08:18.40Leedsfebruary?
08:18.49Leedsstrange definition of autumn you've got there :P
08:22.44bilarhoh sorry feb :D
08:22.48bilarhwinter should be awesome :D
08:23.38Leedsyeah :)
08:24.55Leedswouldn't even say it's likely yet, but we've had successful transit stopovers in Paris and Singapore (last year on the way to Spain, this year on the way back from New Zealand, respectively), and Helsinki would fit well
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08:43.50wethrinI won't be at FOSDEM this year :( - got a concert on the Saturday night
08:45.05Leedswould you be anywhere near London in the following week?
09:06.18wethrinSadly not
09:06.32wethrinwell, no plans as of yet
09:06.55wethrinare you likely to be around the weekends after Fosdem?
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09:15.57morsingmikejw!
09:17.13mikejwhey buddy
09:17.18mikejwhow are you?
09:17.35morsingGreat :)
09:17.44mikejwgood stuff
09:18.27Leedsfrankly, I'm likely to be somewhere in Asia - but the unlikely potential itinerary, as I said, is Hong Kong -> Helsinki -> Amsterdam -> Brussels&FOSDEM -> London -> Hong Kong
09:18.37morsingmikejw: How are you?
09:18.57morsingLeeds: There's no-way you can avoid London?
09:19.44wethrinahhh, pity
09:20.36mikejwmorsing: not bad thanks
09:20.51mikejwhey Leeds, wethrin :)
09:20.59Leedsthe gf is desperate to go to London, and she does have a bit of a point that we've been together 3 years and I haven't taken to the UK yet
09:21.19morsingLeeds: you haven't warned her sufficienlty?
09:21.20wethrinhey mikejw
09:21.46morsingsufficiently. Also, London != UK. There are some nice places in England, London is NOT one of them
09:21.47Leeds(only France, Spain, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, China, Malaysia, Macau...)
09:39.31Alex"trolly trolly troll troll"
09:39.57Alexmorsing: Try again. Central London != London, there are some nice places in London, <insert crap bit here> is not one of them.
09:40.01ChoHagDepends what you mean by nice.
09:40.28Alexmorsing: The bit of London wot I live is fantastic, but I've lived in bits which make me sad to call it civilisation. You can't judge the entire cit{ies,y} by one area.
09:55.43antiphaseFAntastic? Does that mean it only actually exists in your fantasy world, and it's actually Holloway?
09:55.51morsingLondon is disgusting
09:59.44ChoHagDo you not like London?
10:00.41morsingNo, of course not. I have standards
10:00.54ChoHagDo you not like being associated with London?
10:02.49morsingNo thanks
10:02.58ChoHagThen why are you?
10:03.09morsingBecause I love you
10:04.05ChoHagThankyou.
10:04.10ChoHagWhere's my birthday present?
10:05.39wethrindick_turpin's got it
10:05.49wethrinhe'll sell it to you for a "fair" price
10:46.40Alexantiphase: quite :)
10:47.27bilarhi think it depends on "where you are in your life"
10:47.39bilarhi'm at the phase where i want a garage more than a pub :)
10:47.43Alexfair point, yeah.
10:47.45bilarhhence i'm out in the 'burbs
10:47.52wethrinsurbiton?
10:47.56bilarhi used to live in camden when i was 21 and that was a fucking riot
10:48.04bilarhwethrin: petts wood
10:48.08bilarhwethrin: i.e. bromley
10:48.22AlexI live in Primrose Hill, above an old retired folk singer and an architect. They give us jam. We're 5 mins walk from The Roundhouse, and I most definitely do not have a garage.
10:48.24wethrinYou cockney, you
10:48.27bilarhor well, actually it's probably more orpington, but i'll stick to bromley because that sounds posher :)
10:48.41bilarhalex: primrose hill you posh git :D
10:48.53bilarhprimrose hill is really nice, though.. one of my old bosses used to live there
10:49.08ChoHag<Boss> The problem with QA [which I think is 2 people, possibly 1] is that they test what we tell them to test.
10:49.18ChoHagI shit you not. That is a direct quote.
10:49.30bilarhchohag: that is a real problem in QA
10:49.36ChoHagExcept for the [...] obviously.
10:49.36Alexbilarh: Sold my kidney, yeah. As you say though - no garage/etc :)
10:50.50bilarhchohag: how are you ever going to find bugs you don't know about if the QA people only do exactly what the developers tell them?
10:51.10bilarhchohag: the developers would already know about the bugs the QA people found then, wouldn't they?
10:51.29bilarhI'm warming to your boss, perhaps he isn't so stupid after all :P
11:04.50wethrinGah, fuck off BMC fucking Remedy
11:04.55wethrinwhat a steaming pile of shite software
11:06.13morsingRemedy is made by BMC...
11:06.34morsingMany companies use it poorly implemented
11:06.44morsingThat being said . .. It's made by BMC
11:07.13wethrinYes. It's a steaming pile of shite
11:07.44wethrinpoorly implemented doesn't really help here either :)
11:10.12bilarhwethrin: please don't swear... Remedy made my eyes bleed on occasion :S
11:11.49wethrinsorry!
11:12.12bilarhi'm going to have to see a shrink now :(
11:13.01wethrinplease submit a work info item for that
11:30.44morsinghttp://www.zhuzh.com/
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11:36.47ChoHag"Please patch this script to fix a caching issue on a client's site"
11:37.01ChoHaguhh but that site doesn't use caching. The issue is elsewhere.
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12:02.16morsingmohan!
12:25.18ChoHagHow does apache attempt to determine the server's fully qualified domain name?
12:25.41ChoHagIt frequently complains that it's unable to do so, and that ServerName should be set, but what is it actually failing at?
12:29.12wethrinIt's failing at reading ServerName from the httpd.conf file
12:29.22wethrinor from the appropriate vhost
12:29.45wethrinPresumably it'd be trying to determine a server name from a host lookup
12:36.23morsingwethrin: What's for lunch?
12:36.41ChoHagCurry.
12:36.49wethrinI think I'll have a panini
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13:21.49dick_turpin♠ The Ace of spades, the Ace of spades ♣
13:22.25wethrinhello dick_turpin
13:52.24kjsAnyone see that BBC Horizon episode on astroids? The guy was using CentOS ;)
13:53.04dick_turpinNice
16:05.40ChoHagCan vi replace some text (eg. a word) with what's in the yank buffer?
16:12.09antiphasehttp://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Replace_a_word_with_yanked_text suggests it's a arcane, stupid and unmemorable as usual
16:16.31ChoHagYeah that didn't work.
16:17.24ChoHagv isn't a vi command
16:17.34ChoHagMust be a vimism.
16:17.47antiphaseAnyone still using vi is a cock
16:18.10morsingantiphase: But you're an idiot...
16:18.37antiphaseBetter than being a cunt
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17:07.09mikejwhappy fireworks night
17:07.46ChoHagTramp is used by emacs to open files on remote servers. You used to be able (apparently) to hop from host to host with a syntax like /multi:<host1>:<host2>...
17:08.14ChoHagApparently that was too logical or something because now you have to set a proxy variable.
17:12.45mikejwhmm

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