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| 03:04.00 | z00dax | morning chaps |
| 03:04.15 | clive-h | good morning |
| 03:04.21 | z00dax | clive-h: whats the frequency |
| 03:06.37 | z00dax | ? |
| 03:08.21 | LeedsHK | well, it seems I've got a pretty good chance of some Solaris admin work :-) |
| 03:10.02 | z00dax | nice |
| 03:15.00 | LeedsHK | had a relatively soft interview this morning... stuff like "if /opt is getting full, how would you work out what's eating the space" |
| 03:15.18 | LeedsHK | also, some stuff I couldn't answer :-) |
| 03:19.17 | clive-h | sounds good |
| 03:19.18 | z00dax | like what ? |
| 03:19.52 | clive-h | i got offerd an interview after flaking out on most solaris stuff |
| 03:20.08 | clive-h | good luck |
| 03:20.52 | LeedsHK | like... ODS? BMC Petrol? |
| 03:21.32 | LeedsHK | like... if your CPU, disk, I/O, memory, network bandwidth are all well within capacity, but your application is running slowly, what would you do - "fix the application" would seem to be the right answer... |
| 03:21.46 | z00dax | i know abot ods |
| 03:21.52 | z00dax | i have no clue about bmc petrol |
| 03:22.06 | z00dax | is that drive management / storage management stuff as well ? |
| 03:22.16 | clive-h | ods sounds live vms |
| 03:22.30 | clive-h | bmc patrol i know |
| 03:22.37 | z00dax | what is it ? |
| 03:22.49 | z00dax | ods is a storage monitoring / management thing |
| 03:23.35 | clive-h | bmc patrol is a database monitoring application |
| 03:23.50 | LeedsHK | patrol or petrol? :-) |
| 03:24.03 | clive-h | patrol |
| 03:24.06 | LeedsHK | anyway, I was playing the "I don't know it, but I can learn it" card |
| 03:24.09 | clive-h | err |
| 03:24.41 | LeedsHK | along with the "you name it, I can script it" |
| 03:25.04 | clive-h | i have to look for a job |
| 03:25.21 | clive-h | think i'll start monday |
| 03:25.44 | LeedsHK | and the reaction I got was the one I was looking for - and the one I've been missing though all my attempts to find work here - "I know you're more of an engineer than an admin, and I know that engineers tend to learn quickly" |
| 03:26.10 | clive-h | sounds good |
| 03:27.07 | LeedsHK | as opposed to other people who say "okay, you may have 9 years experience, from C in the kernel to python/javascript on the web - but you don't have experience with php, so we'd have to treat you like a new grad" |
| 03:28.23 | clive-h | i'd runaway if they mentioned php |
| 03:28.39 | clive-h | but i'm a sysadmin |
| 03:28.51 | LeedsHK | I need work |
| 03:29.08 | LeedsHK | I'm not an admin, not really... but if they want to pay me to admin a bunch of servers... |
| 03:29.20 | clive-h | i admin stuff |
| 03:29.54 | clive-h | don't expect me to write pretty web pages |
| 03:31.32 | LeedsHK | I can't make things pretty - but I can make them work |
| 03:32.26 | clive-h | mine work but they're rather basic |
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| 07:10.20 | morsing | 'morning |
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| 07:28.14 | morsing | SlayerXP! |
| 07:28.24 | morsing | ping sabinef72 |
| 07:28.29 | SlayerXP | lo |
| 07:31.35 | morsing | SlayerXP: How do I find a contracting job outside London? |
| 07:32.35 | SlayerXP | morsing: you spend hours and hours combing through badly written advert on jobserve and related sites. |
| 07:33.19 | morsing | Nice. Can you do ikt for me? |
| 07:33.24 | morsing | s/ikt/it/ |
| 07:33.43 | SlayerXP | then you apply for a job advertised as "Linux specialist required. URGENT!!!!" and spend 3 weeks packaging build tools for 5 different solaris platforms |
| 07:34.52 | morsing | Linux?!?!? |
| 07:35.20 | LeedsHK | you're thinking you'll get AIX work? |
| 07:35.32 | morsing | Well, obviously |
| 07:42.36 | morsing | LeedsHK? |
| 07:43.02 | SlayerXP | on an utterly offtopic errr topic, abmx will process its 2 millionth message today. under 10,000 to go. |
| 07:44.22 | LeedsHK | SlayerXP: what proportion of the mail you process do you reject/mark/whatever as spam? |
| 07:45.03 | SlayerXP | LeedsHK: only about 5% of mail hitting the cluster gets out the other side. |
| 07:45.19 | LeedsHK | so you reckon 95% of mail is spam? |
| 07:45.45 | SlayerXP | spam and viruses. |
| 07:45.51 | LeedsHK | right |
| 07:46.10 | SlayerXP | that said, we have a couple of domains with _insane_ noise to signal ratios |
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| 07:48.45 | morsing | niv_one_three! |
| 07:52.51 | niv_one_three | morsing: hi |
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| 08:04.36 | morsing | greebs! |
| 08:05.02 | greebs | morsing, hi! |
| 08:06.44 | LeedsHK | greebs: not frozen to death yet then? |
| 08:08.56 | greebs | LeedsHK, heh, no the weather has actually been lovely :) blue skies every day but one |
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| 09:01.25 | morsing | clive-h! |
| 09:01.27 | morsing | ping cope |
| 09:01.30 | morsing | ~seen cope |
| 09:01.50 | ibot | cope <n=stephen@88.212.149.148> was last seen on IRC in channel #gllug, 7d 13h 45m 31s ago, saying: 'poke hali'. |
| 09:06.18 | clive-h | hi |
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| 10:16.00 | mumperer | Morning greetings, gentlefolk, the sun is up and I have pears ripening on the windowsill and today i will install Ekiga and SWMBO smiles at me. Good fortune, eh? |
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| 10:19.21 | bilarh | [root@gs2cmw02 usr]# cd /usr/bin |
| 10:19.21 | bilarh | -bash: cd: /usr/bin: Input/output error |
| 10:19.22 | bilarh | [root@gs2cmw02 usr]# |
| 10:19.26 | bilarh | :'( |
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| 10:19.54 | bilarh | ok, so here's the problem: |
| 10:20.19 | antiphase | It's fucked? |
| 10:20.44 | mumperer | Succinct. |
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| 10:22.19 | bilarh | yeah :) |
| 10:22.26 | bilarh | i'll try to fsck it |
| 10:22.35 | bilarh | we moved partitions around |
| 10:23.18 | bilarh | ok, fsck fsck'ed up as well :( |
| 10:23.23 | bilarh | oh well, rebuild time i guess :) |
| 10:24.10 | antiphase | Restore from backup ;) |
| 10:24.34 | bilarh | it's a new box with no backups :) |
| 10:24.46 | antiphase | Although livecds were invented primarily for reviving broken systems |
| 10:24.57 | bilarh | yeah but that's only good if you're actually by the machine :) |
| 10:24.59 | antiphase | At least ime, they're bugger all use for anything else :) |
| 10:25.00 | bilarh | this machine is out in the sticks |
| 10:25.06 | clive-h | in that reinstall makes sense |
| 10:25.17 | clive-h | that case |
| 10:25.17 | bilarh | ooh, i lie |
| 10:25.21 | bilarh | i do have a backup :D |
| 10:25.52 | clive-h | ipmi + kickstart ++ |
| 10:26.36 | bilarh | yeah thank god for remote consoles |
| 10:26.45 | hali | whats an easy way to trigger a kernel panic in linux? |
| 10:26.49 | hali | i need to test netdump |
| 10:27.00 | antiphase | Google for sysrq-trigger |
| 10:47.06 | sabinef72 | hello |
| 10:52.10 | hali | can't find a panic key for sysrq-trigger, i think i got a good test of netdump anyway, it logs memory dumps and stuff as well |
| 10:56.29 | bilarh | isn't there like a panic system call you could write a little c-program to call? |
| 10:57.21 | hali | got it :) |
| 10:57.28 | hali | echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger works fine :P |
| 10:57.41 | hali | however dumping 4gb memory over a 100mbit lan takes a while |
| 10:59.10 | antiphase | About 6 minutes I should hope |
| 11:02.14 | bilarh | we used to dump 96gb of memory to disk |
| 11:02.18 | bilarh | that also took a bit of time :) |
| 11:06.22 | hali | hm, nice linux fs "bugs" i get as well :) |
| 11:06.31 | hali | the machine had 8gigs of physical memory |
| 11:06.34 | hali | but 420megs used |
| 11:06.48 | hali | so the file allocation size is 8gb... but it's only got 420megs of used blocks |
| 11:07.02 | bilarh | but surely you'd want to dump all the memory |
| 11:07.24 | hali | i told it to dump all the memory |
| 11:07.37 | hali | http://pastebin.ca/386105 |
| 11:08.06 | hali | and it did, indirectly |
| 11:08.17 | hali | i need to read a bit of source code before i can say "aha" here ... |
| 11:08.56 | hali | but i would guess it just dumps allocated memory and since the allocations can be spread over the address map it needs the full theoretical file size |
| 11:30.44 | bilarh | wouldn't it just make sense to dump all the memory in that case :) |
| 11:31.02 | bilarh | it would be a lot easier to code, and usually you'd probably have used most of the memory anyway due to caching and buffering |
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| 11:42.17 | morsing | asht_007! |
| 11:43.11 | XPSlammer | i need more customers. |
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| 12:38.20 | morsing | Leeds! |
| 12:38.33 | Leeds | morsing! |
| 12:39.03 | niv_one_three | Leeds ! and morsing! |
| 12:48.13 | Leeds | and niv_one_three makes three |
| 12:51.45 | morsing | One |
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| 12:55.39 | morsing | Leeds! |
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| 13:13.11 | mumperer | Hi :) |
| 13:13.33 | morsing | mumperer! |
| 13:13.59 | mumperer | morsing! |
| 13:14.55 | goibhniu | film festival! yay! http://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/ |
| 13:16.15 | wethrin | people! |
| 13:17.13 | goibhniu | person!! |
| 13:19.04 | morsing | wethrin! |
| 13:19.46 | wethrin | hi |
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| 14:06.23 | mumperer | Further greetings to GLLUGites - just in case any of you are attempting to program something similar, I have been attempting to assist SWMBO in gaining recipes for cooking a "thing" that looks like a cartoon-type melon and is called a Sweet Mama Squash, Most of those I've googled up are incomprehensible to this mere male. Anybody feel like being suggestive? :-P |
| 14:07.04 | wethrin | Make curry instead. |
| 14:07.30 | mumperer | wethrin: ah, man after my own heart! |
| 14:07.58 | clive-h | I've heard of Butternut Squashes |
| 14:08.08 | clive-h | you get those in supermarkets |
| 14:08.40 | mumperer | Oi, I'm NOT going into butternuts! |
| 14:09.27 | clive-h | I have no idea what a sweet Mama Squash involves |
| 14:09.53 | mumperer | Yeah - me too - I wonder whether it's a Martian term of abuse? |
| 14:10.15 | mumperer | Or was that butternuts? |
| 14:12.43 | clive-h | My google-fu suggests this is a swet mama squash :- http://www.thepumpkinpatch.com/squashpages/sweetmama.htm |
| 14:14.11 | mumperer | Yup - wanna cook it? AND relate all that to SWMBO? O mighty and brave one! |
| 14:14.51 | clive-h | I don't like squashes or pumpkins actually |
| 14:15.11 | mumperer | I think I'll go tangle with the Guardian crossword instead. Or play Russian Roulette or some such ... |
| 14:15.21 | morsing | ping wethrin |
| 14:16.05 | clive-h | Last time I cooked squashes they were rather carbonised |
| 14:16.14 | clive-h | and I binned em |
| 14:16.35 | mumperer | Um - coalbin? |
| 14:16.51 | clive-h | well not edible |
| 14:16.57 | wethrin | morsing: pong |
| 14:17.26 | mumperer | Good 'ere, innit? |
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| 14:19.44 | morsing | wethrin: How are you? |
| 14:19.45 | morsing | greebo! |
| 14:20.09 | wethrin | I'm okay. I forgot to have lunch, though |
| 14:20.24 | greebo | morsing, heh |
| 14:20.53 | morsing | wethrin: Not good |
| 14:21.45 | wethrin | No, but never mind. |
| 14:24.47 | morsing | wethrin: I'm extremely bored and tired |
| 14:24.58 | wethrin | Are you at work? |
| 14:26.25 | morsing | Yes |
| 14:30.49 | morsing | wethrin: What are you doing? |
| 14:38.33 | wethrin | morsing: Been on the phone, doing stuff about elections |
| 14:39.15 | morsing | What stuff about electrons? |
| 14:39.22 | morsing | Vacuum them? |
| 14:39.51 | wethrin | elections |
| 14:39.54 | wethrin | Not electrons :) |
| 14:40.09 | wethrin | I'm still waiting for my evaporator to pump down before I can do an evaporation |
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| 14:50.18 | morsing | londo! |
| 14:50.25 | morsing | Mmm... evaporator |
| 15:10.15 | morsing | SlayerXP! |
| 15:10.23 | morsing | SlayerXP: How's your evaporator? |
| 15:10.36 | SlayerXP | ? |
| 15:14.29 | morsing | rhowe: Why are you ignoring me? |
| 15:15.43 | morsing | ping wethrin |
| 15:18.12 | bilarh | http://pointers.istheshit.net/ |
| 15:20.06 | morsing | ping wethrin |
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| 15:40.11 | morsing | SlayerXP! |
| 15:41.01 | dick_turpin | ibot: throw water over goibhniu |
| 15:42.01 | goibhniu | /me's head explodes into little shards of tin |
| 15:42.37 | morsing | Mmm... Tin |
| 15:45.00 | dick_turpin | goibhniu: Oops he was supposed to throw the water not the bucket as well |
| 15:45.24 | Leeds | there's a hold in your bucket, dear ibot, dear ibot |
| 15:45.28 | Leeds | argh, that's hole! |
| 15:47.07 | goibhniu | ibot: pick on someone of your own level of intelligence |
| 15:47.09 | ibot | ACTION teases someone of your own level of intelligence until someone of your own level of intelligence starts to cry |
| 15:47.46 | dick_turpin | What on earth was that ibot? |
| 15:48.58 | dick_turpin | goibhniu: I'm not having much luck on my quest :-( |
| 15:49.04 | goibhniu | dick_turpin: no? |
| 15:49.11 | goibhniu | so no-one has done it yet either? |
| 15:49.37 | morsing | Nice |
| 15:49.48 | dick_turpin | goibhniu: I know you would have thought people would be falling over themselves to steal the idea |
| 15:50.22 | goibhniu | dick_turpin: off to the copyright office with you pronto |
| 15:50.32 | SlammerXP | dick_turpin: are there really so many UK LUGs that a postcode search is really needed? |
| 15:51.43 | dick_turpin | SlammerXP: Maybe not, for me its more as novelty but as goibhniu said it could be global say you was off abroad and you fancied a meet? |
| 15:51.58 | goibhniu | I was thinking about that I think long + lat would be more universal ... you could arrange a flashlug in my underpants |
| 15:53.53 | dick_turpin | goibhniu: IMO thats might be a little OTT I just want simple... like me :-) |
| 15:54.39 | morsing | ibot fetch Cope |
| 15:54.42 | dick_turpin | goibhniu: "Don't cry for me Argentina" |
| 16:23.47 | trousers_ | Ow! |
| 16:25.00 | goibhniu | sorry trousers_ |
| 16:25.25 | goibhniu | trousers_: surely you're in the senior classes now? |
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| 17:00.59 | goibhniu | hey trousers_ ... there's a lot of excitement over at cinelerra recently ... c++ refactoring, independent funding for projects and SoC proposals |
| 17:05.48 | morsing | goibhniu! |
| 17:13.07 | SlammerXP | the 2 millionth email came and went, and I forgot to notice |
| 17:14.36 | morsing | Nice |
| 17:16.04 | goibhniu | morsing: did you have a nice lunch? |
| 17:20.41 | morsing | goibhniu: Yes |
| 17:20.55 | morsing | flamingos are way better than salsaman |
| 17:20.59 | morsing | ibot flamingo |
| 17:21.24 | goibhniu | morsing: it was a particularly ugly one |
| 17:21.40 | morsing | An ugly salsama? |
| 17:21.47 | morsing | salsaman |
| 17:21.59 | goibhniu | no ... salsaman is beautiful |
| 17:22.30 | goibhniu | morsing: have you ever touched salsaman? |
| 17:22.40 | morsing | No |
| 17:24.17 | wethrin | morsing: |
| 17:25.48 | Leeds | ah, good old floo... |
| 17:29.16 | morsing | Floo rocks |
| 17:32.40 | wethrin | What's floo done? |
| 17:34.48 | morsing | wethrin: Beer festival? |
| 17:37.24 | Leeds | wethrin: check -social |
| 18:33.18 | agk | this year's Ig Nobel tour: http://improbable.com/improbable-research-shows/ig-uk-tour/ |
| 19:29.17 | morsing | ping wethrin |
| 19:32.02 | wethrin | Sorry - I'm just running out of the door |
| 19:48.50 | morsing | Nice typing and running action there |
| 20:18.27 | morsing | http://motoring.aol.co.uk/rail-line-motorist-escapes-charges/article/20070308081709990003 |
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| 23:01.41 | cozmoz | hi |
| 23:10.17 | goibhniu | hey cozmoz |
| 23:12.53 | trousers_ | Evening. |
| 23:13.10 | cozmoz | hello |
| 23:13.28 | cozmoz | just came to see how everyone is doing |
| 23:13.40 | cozmoz | not visited in a while |
| 23:13.58 | trousers_ | Well, it seems that Sauron is growing stronger. |
| 23:14.20 | cozmoz | lol |
| 23:14.49 | cozmoz | just switch back to linux recently, am using Ubuntu Dapper |
| 23:14.55 | trousers_ | Funky |
| 23:15.49 | cozmoz | any idea when the next meet is? |
| 23:16.06 | trousers_ | No, sorry. |
| 23:16.10 | cozmoz | arg |
| 23:16.31 | trousers_ | You can always organise one if you really wish so :) |
| 23:16.36 | cozmoz | :) |
| 23:16.58 | cozmoz | not a bad idea, gonna have to stick around and catch up with the group |
| 23:17.01 | wethrin | I might know when the next meet is |
| 23:17.09 | trousers_ | Evening wethrin |
| 23:17.10 | cozmoz | hi wethrin |
| 23:17.20 | wethrin | Ahoy |
| 23:17.24 | trousers_ | And when would that be, sailor? |
| 23:17.24 | z00dax | hello |
| 23:18.07 | cozmoz | hi z00dax |
| 23:18.31 | z00dax | trousers_: cozmoz: |
| 23:18.39 | wethrin | Ah, well.... |
| 23:18.42 | wethrin | That would be telling |
| 23:18.48 | wethrin | z00dax! |
| 23:18.50 | trousers_ | Exactly. |
| 23:19.02 | wethrin | I did say I *might* know |
| 23:19.09 | z00dax | wethrin: so it seems that i will be in town on the 24th so that works for me as well |
| 23:19.22 | z00dax | but we need to get some dates past sean first i suppose |
| 23:19.57 | trousers_ | "To might know" is synonymous to "to know" |
| 23:19.58 | trousers_ | :) |
| 23:20.05 | wethrin | Even better! |
| 23:20.10 | trousers_ | z00dax: Sean? |
| 23:20.14 | wethrin | Oh, not quite |
| 23:20.38 | z00dax | was there to be a social today ? |
| 23:20.48 | wethrin | A London.pm social |
| 23:21.08 | z00dax | right, i thought there was a real social thing |
| 23:21.17 | wethrin | Hey! |
| 23:21.34 | wethrin | London.pm is a real social |
| 23:22.21 | z00dax | i went for one, i think about 2 years back, was quite depressing actually |
| 23:22.42 | z00dax | maybe it was 3 |
| 23:24.36 | wethrin | The ones I've been to have been fun |
| 23:25.01 | cozmoz | yeppers, kinda missing the good old days, thats why i want to go again :) |
| 23:26.27 | z00dax | exactly how old was the old days? |
| 23:27.29 | cozmoz | lol around 3 yrs ago now |
| 23:28.35 | trousers_ | I was having my first taste of Linux then... Mandrake. |
| 23:28.48 | trousers_ | Well, firstly it was Knoppix. |
| 23:28.56 | cozmoz | i first started with Slackware :S |
| 23:29.12 | cozmoz | yr 2000/01 |
| 23:29.26 | trousers_ | Well, I was still in primary school then :) |
| 23:29.30 | cozmoz | then decided to try out Mandrake |
| 23:29.55 | cozmoz | god ur making me feel old ;) |
| 23:30.06 | trousers_ | Hehe |
| 23:30.54 | trousers_ | Slackware was my first real taste of a command line, though. Before that it was all GUI, I don't know how I survived or even if I say Linux for what it was apart from free of charge. |
| 23:31.52 | wethrin | Fah. I've been using Unix for > 10 years |
| 23:31.57 | cozmoz | yeah its good for getting use to using a terminal, very interesting getting gnome running on the thing |
| 23:32.18 | cozmoz | was pulling my hair out getting nvidia drivers going on the thing |
| 23:33.15 | goibhniu | Ballmer putting on the charm: http://tweakers.net/ext/i/1172056795.jpg |
| 23:33.56 | cozmoz | ?? |
| 23:34.14 | trousers_ | goibhniu: He's about to f*cking kill (tm) somebody! |
| 23:34.56 | goibhniu | notice how his eyes follow you around the room |
| 23:35.11 | trousers_ | goibhniu: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer |
| 23:36.03 | cozmoz | oh that Ballmar |
| 23:37.19 | goibhniu | aghhh!! .... he's got eye rays!! I never knew! |
| 23:37.42 | cozmoz | bring on Godzilla |
| 23:38.54 | cozmoz | goodnight guys im gonna go watch a movie and sleep seeya |
| 23:39.42 | goibhniu | cozmoz: sweet dreams |
| 23:51.15 | goibhniu | after that I'm having trouble taking DELL | Linux seriously http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/alliances/en/linux?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz |
| 23:51.50 | trousers_ | Hehe |
| 23:51.52 | goibhniu | I never knew that "The reason you choose Linux is the reason you'll choose Dell" |
| 23:52.32 | wethrin | It's cheap? |
| 23:53.04 | clive-h | Dell support for linux on servers is good |
| 23:53.16 | *** join/#gllug deep-blue (n=tim@62-31-128-227.cable.ubr02.mort.blueyonder.co.uk) |
| 23:53.36 | clive-h | Dell support for solaris on servers doesn't exist |
| 23:53.39 | deep-blue | hmm haven't been in here in a while |
| 23:54.00 | goibhniu | deep-blue: you were sorely missed ... good to see you again |
| 23:54.04 | wethrin | Use Sun :) |
| 23:54.09 | deep-blue | good to be back, has been too long |
| 23:54.26 | goibhniu | wethrin: stop trying to be controversial |
| 23:54.44 | wethrin | IRIX! |
| 23:55.00 | deep-blue | minix > irix :p |
| 23:55.13 | clive-h | I have no kit that will run irix |
| 23:55.17 | wethrin | Mmm....minix |
| 23:55.23 | wethrin | That's careless. I have 3 bits of kit |
| 23:55.33 | clive-h | minix3 is interesting |
| 23:55.50 | deep-blue | i remember a time when the only OS i could run on my old 286 lappy was minix |
| 23:55.55 | deep-blue | boy that was *fun* |
| 23:56.12 | clive-h | i ran microport svr2.3 on 286 |
| 23:56.20 | deep-blue | now for the million-dollar question, how far can my wifi signal streach |
| 23:56.22 | clive-h | and coherent 3 |
| 23:56.43 | goibhniu | deep-blue: 8 miles on a clear day |
| 23:56.49 | goibhniu | deep-blue: did I win? |
| 23:57.06 | deep-blue | not all of use ultra-high-powered antennas |
| 23:57.27 | deep-blue | i use a pair of maplin SMA extention leads to get my antenna somewhat more centered in my house |
| 23:58.06 | clive-h | ? |
| 23:58.49 | deep-blue | wow, 2% signal |
| 23:59.12 | clive-h | why did you try and message me, deep-blue? |
| 23:59.18 | deep-blue | i didnt... |
| 23:59.23 | deep-blue | least not that i know of |
| 23:59.35 | clive-h | i got a ctcp ping from you? |
| 23:59.55 | deep-blue | huh, i didnt type a name but i typed /ping to see if i was stil connected to freenode |
| 23:59.55 | clive-h | Bit rude |
