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08:19.18j0nrmorning all
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08:50.35Mohanmorning all
08:53.15DiscordianUKMorning
10:10.01ChoHagYay! Another week of toil!
10:12.48bilarhanyone know if it's possible to run two tns aliases for the same instance in oracle?
10:14.38ChoHagProbably. That's implied by 'alias'.
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11:25.53ChoHagCan you check for the vmx/svm CPU extension with an older kernel?
11:35.28bilarhjesus, ftse100 down 4.35% so far
11:36.55bilarhi wonder if it's worth a punt at 3500?
11:38.46wethrinbilarh: Long-term, probably yes. Short-term, no.
11:39.04wethrinouch. pound's dropping again :(
11:39.05bilarhit seems to be bouncing off on around 3700
11:39.22cpufreakwethrin: against what?
11:39.27wethrinUSD and EUR
11:39.35bilarhagainst the ZBW
11:39.37wethrinOh, and CAD
11:39.41cpufreakagainst the EUR is good
11:39.47wethrinNot for us!
11:39.48cpufreakI was worried with it creeping up to 1.12
11:39.58wethrinneeds more lab equipment
11:40.05cpufreakwhat stuff do you need?
11:40.09bilarhwethrin: it's good for our manufacturing indu... oh :(
11:40.11wethrinA spin coater
11:40.16wethrinWe're ordering a glovebox at 90k EUR
11:40.21cpufreakoh not like networking stuff :)
11:40.23wethrinNo :)
11:40.28cpufreakforgets there are other types of labs
11:40.35wethrinWhy, do you have nice stuff going free? :)
11:41.07wethrin(specifically, say, some Cisco 1000bT GBICs)
11:42.17wethrinSo, I also need a spin-coater at about £4k. So if the euro drops to 1.14, we're okay money-wise
11:43.46ChoHagAh that's better. I've had nearly no spam for a week until today. I wondered what had happened.
11:43.54ChoHagNow things seem to be back to normal.
11:44.06wethrinmail servers broken?
11:44.10ChoHagNo.
11:44.13ChoHagWell not mine anyway.
11:50.25ChoHag"experienced Linux Systems Administrator with some PHP skills"
11:50.30ChoHagSound like a webmonkey much?
11:50.45bilarhchohag: what's the pay like?
11:50.51ChoHagNot mentioned.
11:51.06bilarhok
11:51.26wethrinProbably £18k, then
11:51.40wethrinwill do it for £45k
11:51.54bilarhi'd consider a 45k job now as well, if it was *fun*
11:52.09wethrinHey, it's a payrise :)
11:52.31bilarhmy conundrum is this
11:52.36wethrinI don't want to go back to IT, though. So I'd need a decent £££ incentive to do so
11:52.39bilarhdo i stay in a job where i'm bored sick
11:52.47bilarhbut with some kind of job security, at least for 2009
11:53.08bilarhor do I try to find a different job which nmight be fun (they exist, I've had one a couple of times)
11:53.15bilarhbut which might be less stable
11:53.18wethrinHunt for a new job, but don't give up your current one
11:53.22bilarhand probably a lot less pay
11:53.50ChoHagI'd do that for 45.
11:54.07ChoHagEspecially if it's actually honest where they say sysadmin with a bit of php.
11:55.21bilarhhow bad is this, my daydream is to be made redundant :D
11:56.13wethrinIs bilarh going to turn into Wally (from Dilbert)?
11:56.28bilarhyou have to use past tense, i'm afraid
12:00.30wethrinoh
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12:11.07ChoHagWhy have dell made this so complicated?
12:11.47ChoHagI have a disk image in an exe I can't extract on a system with no floppy drive or I have the bios image with nowhere to shove it.
12:12.21ChoHagWould giving me a plain (compressed) image file really have hurt?
12:13.29ChoHagI am capable of running gunzip and dd, and dd is unnecessary anyway because I have a virtual floppy drive - THEIR virtual floppy drive - on the server.
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12:33.26wethrinCock. The pound's still dropping
12:45.47cpufreak\o/
12:46.11wethrinPah. I don't care if it drops at the end of the month
12:46.23wethrinI just want the Euro to collapse a bit for the next couple of weeks
12:46.48wethrinOh, and again for a week or so in June
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15:38.47ChoHagWindows licensing is stupid.
15:39.02ChoHagWe can't run a test server for a few weeks unless we buy a £500 license.
15:42.11mindbendrhave you tried asking to MS
15:42.19mindbendrthey might provide such a license?
15:44.55ChoHagNo. I need to test interaction between linux and windows servers, so I wanted to set up a test environment.
15:45.32antiphasehttp://piratebay.org/
15:47.11mindbendrwe had such an issue, the commercial helpdesk ticket system needs an ms office library to generate some reports which you only could get the library when you install ms office
15:47.29mindbendrso just to generate a chart, the company bought a license of ms office.
15:47.36ChoHagYeah that was my first thought, and in fact I already have a copy of the CDs at home, but I thought they might like to do things 'legitimately'. For some definition of legitimate.
15:47.42mindbendrit was just a .dll file.
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16:10.05AndyMillarChoHag: this is what site licenses are for :)
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23:05.01kjshumm anywhere in central that is likely to have any low profile NIC's ?
23:05.01kjsfailing that USB network card (yuk)
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