| 00:00.22 | highbury | but its a very bad thing to want to do |
| 00:00.22 | highbury | <PROTECTED> |
| 00:00.31 | ar | if the leading slash is left in the tar, is it possible to extract the tar into a directory other than the origianl locations? |
| 00:00.54 | highbury | don't use -P flag :-) |
| 00:00.59 | wethrin | tar -d, IIRC |
| 00:01.19 | NisoDaemon | tar -C ? :) |
| 00:01.29 | highbury | tar will usually extract relatative to current directory |
| 00:01.51 | ar | highbury: i thought that was why it strips the leading slash |
| 00:02.45 | highbury | it does that for safety sake |
| 00:03.18 | highbury | otherwise you might accidently overwrite something you didn't mean to |
| 00:03.47 | ar | indeed, so it would be nice not to have leading slashes inside the tar |
| 00:03.49 | highbury | e.g your unpacking a new application source, and BANG! it overwrites /etc/passwd |
| 00:04.26 | *** join/#gllug mozrat (~simon@host81-130-32-100.in-addr.btopenworld.com) |
| 00:04.48 | highbury | that is what is recommended ar |
| 00:05.27 | highbury | when I tar up a root partition, i'd "cd /; tar cf - ./" |
| 00:06.03 | ar | that seems a reasonable solution, thanks :) |
| 00:12.27 | wethrin | Danke schoen :) |
| 00:13.02 | Leeds | this is high-quality ripping... but designed to fit two episodes per CD |
| 00:13.10 | Leeds | there are 7 eps in the first series |
| 00:13.52 | Leeds | 'tis very geeky indeed |
| 00:14.21 | wethrin | Cool :) |
| 00:16.37 | Leeds | but no commentary :-( |
| 00:17.28 | Leeds | the commentaries are less geeky than the Futurama ones... the guys who made that are heavy heavy geeks |
| 00:18.08 | wethrin | I haven't heard any Futurama commentaries - any chance of borrowing a DVD? :) |
| 00:18.31 | Leeds | I doubt any other mainstream TV show *ever* has made a joke where a binary number on the wall is the ASCII number for something funny |
| 00:18.48 | Leeds | well, slightly funny |
| 00:18.54 | wethrin | The were-car episode? |
| 00:18.58 | Leeds | nope |
| 00:19.12 | wethrin | Which episode, then? |
| 00:19.50 | Leeds | Bender's apartment number is 00100100 |
| 00:20.21 | wethrin | Okay - what's that the ASCII value for? (not bothering to work it out) |
| 00:20.38 | Leeds | it's $ - referring to Bender's love of money |
| 00:20.50 | wethrin | Ahh....*very* much an injoke, then |
| 00:20.54 | Leeds | yes |
| 00:21.18 | wethrin | Could have been worse - they could have done in in EBCDIC and BCD :) |
| 00:21.27 | wethrin | Then maybe 1 person would have got it |
| 00:21.42 | Leeds | but the commentaries are full of mentions of things on fan's websites - to the extent of one writer saying that someone had panned an episode online, so he e-mailed the fan to explain what was going on... |
| 00:22.00 | Leeds | how scary would that be? You pan a TV show, and the writer emails you to talk about your complaint? :-) |
| 00:22.09 | wethrin | That's be quite cool :) |
| 00:22.40 | wethrin | *That'd |
| 00:22.45 | wethrin | Gah. Need sleep. G'night |
| 00:22.46 | Leeds | I know one or two Frasier staff participate in the newsgroup sometimes... and PTerry is a quite regular poster in his groups |
| 00:22.54 | Leeds | g'night |
| 00:29.12 | Leeds | hmm... there appears to be a Futurama sale starting next week... might be time to replace my downloaded stuff with DVDs |
| 00:48.29 | mozrat | nn |