IRC log for #gllug on 20110318

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08:23.12Azundrismoin moin
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08:42.30ChoHag#549621 reported in 2009. File not included in package.
08:42.32ChoHagStill not fixed.
08:47.47morsingChoHag: Fedora?
08:56.46ChoHagDebian.
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09:44.10ChoHag'I am in Exchange training as we speak.  Yesterday the instructor was
09:44.10ChoHagaghast: "Who still supports IMAP?"
09:44.11ChoHag'
09:44.35AndyMillarheh
09:47.07Azundris??
09:47.10Azundriswtf
09:49.26haliimap is pretty shit
09:49.42halibut there aren't any good alternatives either
09:50.12AndyMillarmapi? :-p
09:50.44antiphaseWhat's wrong with IMAP?
09:54.02Leedsit's somewhat complex
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10:55.54ChoHag"Creating basic menus"
10:55.55ChoHag<130 lines of perl>
10:56.51ChoHagOr using the new-fangled XML bullshit, 260 lines of perl.
10:57.04wethrinBut XML is TEH FUTUUR
10:57.10ChoHagPerl! The language where you can have an entire fucking application in 12 bytes.
10:57.38Leedsoh, come on...
10:58.03ChoHagNo you're right, 12 bytes is a bit excessive.
10:58.19ChoHagIt includes comments though.
10:58.27LeedsXML is obviously better than plain perl
10:58.51Leedsit starts with an X - QED
10:59.26ChoHagX starts with X.
11:01.18Leedsends with one too
11:01.36ChoHagSo by your logic it would be doubly better.
11:01.45ChoHagIt is, however, X, so we know that's not true.
11:14.20halixml is dead, bring on json
11:15.05AndyMillarjson is horific
11:25.23boudiccas<PROTECTED>
11:26.39morsingSave? Huh?
11:27.01morsingUnsave?
11:27.30boudiccasi want to depete some that have been previously saved, so i need to remove the 'save' flag
11:27.35boudiccas*delete
11:27.41wethrinD marks a message for deletion
11:27.42morsingAll ctrl+n does is move to the next messager?
11:27.43morsingAll ctrl+n does is move to the next message?
11:27.53morsingSave flag??
11:28.05morsingI'm confused...
11:28.16morsingWhat's a save flag?
11:29.22boudiccassomething that trips teh program for a certain course of events
11:29.30boudiccasin this case to save it
11:30.59morsing...
11:31.21morsingWhere does it save it? An archive folder?
11:31.33morsingAnd still, CTRL-N just displays the next message
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13:13.13dick_turpinWhy can I not help thinking the cease fire in Libya remind's me of Santiago Arena 1973?
13:35.51ChoHagFucking devs.
13:35.57ChoHag13:33 < ChoHag> Can Gtk pop up a menu with the first (or whichever) item already highlighted?
13:36.02ChoHag13:34 < jonnor> ChoHag: yes
13:38.36Azundris?
13:39.03Azundris1 minute turn-around doesn't seem so bad?
13:39.12ChoHag'yes' is not a particularly useful answer, despite being technically correct considering my question.
13:40.49Azundrissnickers. "I'll admit it's the one I'd probably have given. You know the hot air balloon joke, right? Where the guys in the balloon get lost in the fog and cry out to someone on the ground, 'Oy, where are we?', and when they've almost drifted out of earshot, the guy finally answers, 'In a hot air balloon!'"
13:41.09AzundrisAnd then the one guy in the balloon says to the other, "OK, so that was a math prof."
13:41.15Azundris"How d'you figure?"
13:41.27ChoHagYeah I'd have done the same some time ago.
13:41.32ChoHagThen I realised I was a cunt, and stopped.
13:41.42Azundris"The answer was absolutely right, absolutely useless, and it took him forever to give it."
13:42.18AzundrisChoHag: I agree, when it's certain what the question shoulda been.
13:42.40AzundrisChoHag: I cut back on the predictive branching though, because if you're wrong, you type your fingers to bleeding stumps for nothing.
14:03.03dick_turpinChoHag: Its your own fault, you asked a 'closed' question "Can" would require either a yes or no answer hence "Yes you 'can'", "No you 'can't'"
14:04.30dick_turpinBetter question is "Would a GTK...." or "Tell me If GTK had a pop......"
14:05.24ChoHagI usually just stick '[how]' at the beginning.
14:09.45dick_turpinHere endith lesson #1 of The Good Salesman guide, chapter 1 "Asking the right kind of questions" :-)
14:25.55wethrinyou need to ask it in a different way
14:26.07wethrin"Gah! GTK is so rubbish it can't even pop up a menu with the first item already highlighted"
14:30.39Azundrissighs, and actually like GTK2. Another useless skillset, I guess.
14:30.46ChoHagI should try that more often.
14:30.56ChoHagAnd include Linux in there, too.
14:31.21AzundrisI hope not. :(
14:32.41ChoHagI meant in the question/insult.
14:33.02ChoHagInsulting linux brings out the fanbois trying to prove to you how great it is.
14:33.20dick_turpinnotes that wethrin is a trouble maker
14:35.56AzundrisI miss that True Faith. :/
14:36.30AzundrisMy benefactors gave me a MacBook Pro.  I knew I was going to hate it, but I figured I'd give it 12 months.
14:36.57AzundrisWhen after 12 months I still hated it, I fixed up my linux machine, and found that now that annoys me too, just in different ways. :-/
14:37.04dick_turpinI wish someone would give me a Mac
14:37.17AzundrisPowerMac, maybe.
14:37.27AzundrisMBP is just pointless.
14:37.30AzundrisGlossy display.
14:37.33AzundrisLow resolution.
14:37.37wethrinMBP is shiny
14:37.41AzundrisPower cord that the cats can unplug.
14:38.02AzundrisI like the trackpad though, FWIW.
14:38.53AzundrisThe MBP is pretty. It's just not my favorite machine to do actual work on.
14:39.22LeedsI honestly don't understand how people choose to do real work on laptops anyway
14:39.42AzundrisYou get used to the pain.
14:40.59dick_turpinDepends if its a 18" Laptop or not I suppose?
14:41.14AzundrisI like having stuff I can move on my own. :)
14:42.16AzundrisBut yeah, I've often wondered whether I'd have preferred the 17" MBP (I have the 15").
14:42.36ChoHagI think my laptop is 12" or something.
14:42.39AzundrisThe 17" at the time came with matte display, big plus right there, and a decent rez in the 1900s.
14:42.41ChoHagIt's about A4 size.
14:42.53wethrinI have the 15". I'm running it on an external monitor, with external keyboard and mouse at work
14:43.11ChoHagThinkpad, or whatever not-IBM call them.
14:43.23LeedsI have a desktop at work and a desktop at home
14:43.23AzundrisYeah, I should just do that already. Get an ext screen again.
14:43.35AzundrisAnd maybe the SafeType, just to freak people out. :)
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17:02.17ChoHag"... and polio is caused by sugary foods (as the disease was more prevalent in summer, and thus linked to increased ice-cream consumption)."
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18:13.18ChoHag"Being a Brit I have no love for the cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys. But I envy their 35 work conditions and general attitude to life."

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