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00:10.25Leedsrented it for a week for a couple of quid
00:11.35Leeds:-)
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07:05.54morsing'morning all
07:08.51Leedsugh
07:09.24morsing?
07:09.45Leedsit's morning...
07:10.22Leedsand I'm awake...
07:10.26morsingYou owe me a beer
07:10.42Leedswhat for?
07:11.15morsingLeeds: Cambridge is not in Essex
07:11.15LottoKimmorning
07:11.50Leedsuh, what?
07:21.48morsingLeeds: You know...
07:26.21Leedsmorsing: are you drunk?
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07:38.33mozratG'Morning
07:38.53Leedshi, mozzie
07:39.45mozratHey Leeds
07:40.20mozratLeeds, the meeting is "back on track" now. Two lovely volunteers have stepped forward to take it over
07:40.23mozrat*phew*!
07:42.24Leedsgood! :-)
07:45.53Leedshmm... I can get a return flight from Leeds to Amsterdam for 40 quid up - including fees, taxes, etc. - or 60 quid at useful times, i.e. morning out evening back
07:48.05morsingmozrat!
07:48.09mozratmorsing!
08:02.47morsingMmm... Dual plane
08:04.48mozrathttp://beerandspeech.org/index.php?/archives/265-Dan-Kolb-is-my-hero-and-Colin-Watson-too!.html
08:07.16Leedswho is Colin Watson?
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08:09.35mozratI think SpudULike knows him
08:09.35morsinghuw-l!
08:09.52morsingI though is was SpudULike
08:09.56morsingit
08:10.54Leedsno, SpudULike is not called Watson
08:11.22mozratBOLLOCKS
08:11.27mozratGRNHFT
08:11.35mozratWho is Colin Watson - i meant Colin Murphy
08:11.39mozratSorry SpudULike
08:12.00mozratGod, I am such a twat
08:12.38mozrathttp://beerandspeech.org/index.php?/archives/265-Dan-Kolb-is-my-hero-and-Colin-Murphy-too!.html
08:13.09mozratColin Watson is a guy who works for Canonical
08:13.35Leedsheh
08:16.23mozratAt least it didn't make it to Planet GLLUG
08:17.22Leedsthen, uh, Colin Murphy is SpudULike :-)
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08:17.43mozratHe is, and I am a twat
08:17.51SlayerXP?
08:18.37LeedsSlayerXP: sorry - we were talking about you
08:18.40mozratSlayerXP: Me being a twat - you appear at an unfortunate moment
08:19.00mozratI was getting my Colins mixed up in a blog post
08:19.02Leedss/were/weren't/
08:19.27mozratMorning Martin
08:19.45mozratSo your nephew is off the critical list? (Not life threatening?)
08:24.09SlayerXPhe's fine
08:24.32SlayerXPwell, fine as in he's a healthy as can be expected after having his leg blown off by a landmine
08:28.17mozratGood to hear (kind of)
08:28.41mozratDo you know if he lost his leg above or below the knee?
08:29.06mozratThey can do amazing work if it's lower limb loss - a pal of mine in the Army lost his leg in a bike crash below the knww
08:29.09mozratknee
08:29.28mozratYou can walk unaided with a bit of training
08:38.50morsingGggnnfnff!  A chassis number is irrelevant...
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08:45.12Leedsmorning phearless
08:45.35phearlessgood morning everybody !
08:48.48mozratHello phearless
08:49.19z00daxmornings!
08:49.24phearlessanother monday morning
08:49.30phearless...
08:49.30z00daxyay!
09:09.58mozratz00dax: did you ever get that SIP wireless phone working?
09:20.13z00daxmozrat: I did, eventually! it does work ok
09:20.53z00daxthe wifi performance isnt the best though - need to stay relatively close to the base AP
09:59.02mozratz00dax: what is the voice quality like?
09:59.13mozratI might beg it back from you soon :(
10:06.02z00daxsure, its yours!
10:06.26z00daxvoice is ok, I am using it with a remote voip setup in singapore - so i presume some of the issues are latency related.
10:06.35z00daxbut its all 4bit'ish type of voice
10:09.47wethrinrarr
10:12.32mozratHello hero
10:16.31morsingwethrin!
10:16.53Leedstime to take the hot shower, cold shower lottery for the day!
10:17.18wethrinpeople!
10:17.39morsingMmm... lottery
10:30.12Leedsnot that sort of lottery...
10:31.07mozratIf it's a very cold shower what happens to the bonus balls?
10:46.57Leedssort of the opposite to them dropping...
10:47.21rhowe/dev/mapper/vgOS-lvTmp 1014M 1014M  108K 100% /tmp
10:47.24rhowehmmm
10:47.33rhoweThankyou eclipse, for saving a gig of .so's in /tmp
10:47.42rhoweIt seems to require this in order to run
10:48.50rhowe/dev/mapper/vgOS-lvTmp 1.5G 1014M  501M  67% /tmp
10:48.56rhoweah, online XFS resize works a treat :)
10:58.49phearless<mozrat> z00dax: did you ever get that SIP wireless phone working?
10:58.51phearlesswhich one ?
10:58.58z00daxthat one
11:07.13morsing:(
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11:19.28mozratwethrin: ping
11:19.39mozratphearless: it is a Zyxel wireless SIP phone
11:19.47mozratfairly cheap but it works
11:20.10phearlessZyxel voip phones got a bad quality of sound, as I heard
11:20.34mozratphearless: yeah, cheap and cheerful
11:20.39phearlessI am currently trying the linksys/sipura SPA-942
11:20.40mozrata Cisco one would be nice
11:20.53phearlesscisco wireless are too expensive
11:20.54mozratespecially seeing as they are moving their VoIP line over to SIP
11:21.04mozrattheir VoIP product line I should say
11:21.32phearlesshttp://www.cordless-phones.uk.com/skype-phones/cordless-skype-phones/siemens-gigaset-c460-ip this one looks interesting
11:21.39phearlessit is a DECT SIP phone
11:21.47phearlessso you got SIP, and the good quality of voice
11:22.06mozratHmm, cheap as well
11:23.41phearlessyes but still not available :-(
11:23.51mozratoh
11:24.16murbphearless: there is an older model avalible
11:24.20murbi've seen it in the shops
11:24.23murbthat has dect and ethernet
11:24.26murbbut it isn't isdn
11:24.30murbso not very useful.
11:24.48phearlessah do you know the model name ?
11:24.56murbc450 i guess.
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11:51.22wethrinmozrat: pong
11:55.26mozratwethrin: read your email yet? Do you think I should present on Sat or is 3 presentations enough?
11:56.23wethrinThat really depends on how long the other presentations last, and how confident you are on getting there on time :)
11:57.00mozratI'm confident I'll be on time to present last
11:57.09wethrinmozrat: Which email address did you send it to?
11:57.20mozratgllug at eco.li
11:57.37wethrinAhh
11:59.20mozratwethrin: true. But also I wanted to involve a few people that may not want to be on that list
12:00.27wethrinFair enough
12:01.37wethrinHm. Introducing Software Freedom Day...
12:32.15morsing:)
12:34.36SlayerXPi'll bite, what the hell is an "advocacy walk"?  and why do we imagine anyone will care?
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12:46.56Copewalk?
12:47.04mozratibot moonslap SlayerXP
12:47.17ibotACTION nabs the moon and broadsides SlayerXP with the sea of tranquility
12:47.39mozratI needed constructive comments a month ago when I asked for them!!
12:47.51mozratNot 5 days before the event when the final reminder is going out
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13:02.36rhoweThere's a GLLUG meet this month? :)
13:03.59SlayerXPit's not too late to fix, get xinit to foot the bill for some eyecandy to do the handing out
13:04.40SlayerXPyou want people with social skills approaching people on the street, not debian developers.
13:07.58mozratSlayerXP: I'm all admin'd out at the moment. I'm off to Milan on Thursday so I can't really chase them. If they are fairly generous I might tap them for some stuff for the expo though
13:08.06mozratdo you have a contact there?
13:08.35SlayerXPmozrat: not recently.
13:08.49SlayerXPbut there's at least one xinit guy on the list
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13:22.40popeyyo
13:22.44popeymozrat: you about?
13:23.18SlayerXP# Watch out! Mozrat's about!
13:23.32popeyheh
13:23.46popeywas talking about the Humphrey campaign in the pub the other night
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13:29.01mozratpopey: yep
13:34.44mozratibot wake popey
13:34.52ibotACTION throws a barrel-full of ice water on popey and shouts "GOOD MORNING!!!!"
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13:39.17popeyheh
13:39.28popeymozrat: mind if i copy and paste your mail to our wiki for reference?
13:39.32mozrathey Popey - how is SMP getting on?
13:39.37popeyvery well thanks
13:39.42popeyhe's sleeping lots :)
13:39.43popeyin fact
13:39.57mozratpopey: Well - I have to consider that it's my copyrighted material and what if a future employer... oh what the hell. Go nuts
13:39.57popeysleeping - eating - pooping - sleeping - eating - pooping etc
13:40.03popey:)
13:40.15mozratibot SMP is popey version 3
13:40.19ibot...but smp is already something else...
13:40.22mozratah, true
13:40.25mozratibot smp
13:40.26ibotit has been said that smp is (Symmetric Multi Processing) This refers to a technology where a computer uses multiple processors to process different instructions at the same time, in separate processing units. It is a form of parallel computing..  A feature of an SMP system is that it uses shared memory between all the processors, rather than each processor having ...
13:41.04popeyer
13:41.07popeypopey version 2.5
13:41.17popeytheir children will be version 3 +
13:41.24popeyI am hoping they will fork
13:42.36mozratah yes. I didn't see the picture before. Just clicked onto your blog
13:42.39mozratvery nice :-)
13:42.43popeyta :)
13:42.44mozratMy boy started school today
13:42.47popey\o/
13:43.11mozratpopey: think of yourself as a supervisory/consultancy role in the proceedings :-)
13:43.19mozratmiddle-management sort of thing
13:43.33mozrat"Are you sure you shouldn't be pushing a bit harder dear"..
13:44.36popeyhehe
13:44.41popeyit's not pleasant is it?
13:44.48mozratNo, it's bloody horrible
13:44.55popeyespecially pushing a 10lb baby out of a small frame
13:45.13mozrat9lb is big
13:45.37popeyhe looks 3 months old already :)
13:47.03boudiccasmozrat; hint - don't let your partner hold your hand during birth, =you= hold her hand, the back of it! this obviates her crushing your hand/fingers during contractions
13:47.54mozratboudiccas: It's sound advice but I hope to not have to use it
13:48.22boudiccaslearnt it during my maternity placement :)
13:52.30mozratboudiccas: how many did you "despatch" during your placement?
14:02.52boudiccasmozrat; assisted in 2.5 births, from memory
14:02.52LeedsHKwethrin: why are you wondering about me?
14:03.40LeedsHKwethrin: what do I have to do with birthing?
14:03.41wethrinLeedsHK: Your StuddToDisposeOf
14:03.49wethrin*Stuff
14:03.53boudiccas.5 of a birth becuase my shift ended before the baby was produced but during labour, so as I was supernumerary I was able to go home
14:03.59wethrinWhen I said 'this', I just referred to the line I wrote :)
14:04.51LeedsHKwethrin: what on earth are you talking about?
14:05.08wethrinLeedsHK: http://bigboy.vmlinuz.org/moin/StuffToDisposeOf
14:05.35LeedsHKwethrin: yes, I know of that page... I still don't know what you're talking about!  I
14:05.38LeedsHKI'm confused
14:05.55wethrinLeedsHK: I was wondering if you were around
14:06.00wethrinThat's all
14:06.19wethrinI merely used a phrase different to '/me wonders if LeedsHK is around'
14:06.54mozratboudiccas: someone had half a child?
14:07.04mozratoh, sorry. I read your next bit
14:07.14boudiccasmozrat; :)
14:07.22LeedsHKwethrin: why did you bring up my name???
14:08.45wethrinLeedsHK: I was wondering if I could get some of the bits off you in exchange for beer at the Gllug meeting
14:10.26LeedsHKah! so what you mean to say was "LeedsHK: ping?"
14:10.34wethrinLeedsHK: Yes
14:10.47LeedsHKin that case: pong :-)
14:10.48wethrinbasically
14:11.25wethrinThe iPod car charger - is that to fit an iPod with dock connector?
14:11.43LeedsHKyes
14:12.14wethrinExcellent. So it should work with my 4Gen iPod
14:12.41LeedsHKcertainly shou;d
14:13.31wethrinIs the xbox likely to be fast enough to play videos (DivX)?
14:14.19LeedsHKyes - that's what I had it for, mainly, a media player
14:14.58wethrinHurrah! I've been looking for something that's not my laptop, that's living-room friendly :)
14:15.10morsingwethrin: Are you coming tomorrow?
14:15.23wethrinmorsing: Tomorrow?
14:15.44LeedsHKI won't swear that it'll play all xviden...
14:15.54LeedsHKnote that I don't know where the remote is...
14:16.15morsingwethrin: Gllug-social
14:16.28wethrinmorsing: No, anyway
14:16.36wethrinLeedsHK: Can it take a keyboard?
14:18.00mozratpopey: Are you bringing the CD's along on Saturday?
14:18.07LeedsHKyes, with an adapter - which I think there is one of...  once it's working, you can use the native controller to control the media player stuff, although it's not the most obvious combination of controller and interface
14:18.30wethrinmorsing: I'll be around on Saturday, though
14:18.42morsingwethrin: Will you? Near Aylesbury?
14:19.13wethrinLondon
14:19.16morsing:(
14:19.20wethrinWill be coming from Beaconsfield, though
14:19.23mozratThere's a GLLUG social tomorrow? I thought it was next week
14:19.46wethrinSo if you get on a train via HW, I could meet you on the train
14:19.53z00daxyeah, i thought it was next week as well
14:20.06LeedsHKif you're talking about my drinks, I thought it was next week...
14:20.20mozratmorsing: which GLLUG Social? You've confused us all
14:20.43wethrinI won't be able to come on either Tuesday, unfortunately
14:20.50morsingThis one:
14:20.51morsingsocial@gllug.org.uk
14:20.52wethrinmorsing: It's Tuesday 19th.
14:21.00morsingwethrin: Is it?
14:21.11morsings
14:21.28mozratwethrin: we can have an attempt at being social on Saturday in any case
14:21.53wethrinmozrat: Of course
14:21.59wethrinmorsing: Check it
14:23.08Leedsmorsing: given that nobody except z00dax had a preference, it's the 19th
14:23.25mozratLeeds: I also had a preference for next week
14:23.33mozratI would like it to be officially noted!
14:24.40Leedsmozrat: did you express that preference in the appropriate place at the appropriate time?
14:25.01mozratLeeds: no
14:25.10morsingLeeds: yes
14:26.27popeymozrat: yes
14:26.40popeybig bag of cds
14:27.17mozratpopey: lovely
14:33.35popeynow, leaflets
14:33.41popeyI can churn some out here if you want
14:33.56popeyWas thinking about that idea of stapling some or slipping some into the cd cases
14:34.08popeyas a kind of description of the group of people who gave them the cd
14:34.21mozratexcuse my flood
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14:34.32popeyso that people who are in a rush or don't think they're interested can read the leaflet - say 3 bullets
14:34.40mozratthe A5freedom one is a bit cluttered
14:35.13popeywould be nice to have them in an open format :S
14:35.23mozrat:-)
14:35.53popeyseriously
14:35.55popeyso we could edit them
14:36.03mozratthe SVGs are there
14:36.23popeyyou're not wrong
14:39.56mozratone sec - brb
14:55.02SlayerXPmozrat: you might want to correct the spelling and grammar on those flyers
14:56.28mozratSlayerXP: They aren't mine - I was posting from the SFD mailing list
14:56.35mozratI think they are a bit too cluttered to give out
14:57.21SlayerXP5 glaring mistakes on the first
14:58.54SlayerXP1 major, 2 minor mistakes on the second
15:00.01antiphaseThere's a little bit of a knowledge gap too. They've been written by someone who already understand the subject but isn't able to abstract it suitably for a less technical audience
15:01.44mozratI wrote a horrifically long PDF advertising this event - luckily someone corrected me before I sent it out :-)
15:01.53morsingHow do I teach SpamAssasin?
15:01.58Leedsmozrat: you do know that lucychili is an ex-glugger?
15:02.03popeysa-learn?
15:02.05Leedsmorsing: sa-learn
15:02.26popeymozrat: would you be interested in a gobby session to make a document/leaflet?
15:02.34mozratLeeds: I do - I've been talking to her on #sfd
15:02.40mozratpopey: I would indeed
15:02.51popeyi am running gobby 0.4.1
15:02.52mozratpopey: I have a obby server
15:02.58popeyahh, what version
15:03.02mozratone sec
15:03.53morsingLeeds: But on what and do I need to move emails around?
15:04.02morsingAnd is it global or local learning?
15:04.08popeycan't you orun it against your bad mail?
15:04.34morsingWell, how? Do I need to move mail to a folder first?
15:05.18mozrat0.3.0-3
15:05.23popeymozrat: should be okay
15:05.32popeymorsing: http://www.faisal.com/docs/salearn.html
15:05.53popey#3 hit on google for sa-learn
15:06.07mozratpopey: server: beerandspeech.org
15:06.10popeymozrat: is it available now? can I join and brain dump through the day
15:06.11popeyahh
15:06.13mozratpassword: gllug-sfd
15:06.27mozratYep - running now
15:06.36popey:( protocol version mismatch
15:06.53popeyI'll see if I can downgrade
15:07.54popeyaha!
15:07.54mozratnuts
15:08.07popeyi probably can
15:08.13mozratI can connect with 0.3.0 client
15:08.30popeyit's because I have phil kerns sources entry
15:08.42Leedsmorsing: spam in one folder, ham in another: "sa-learn -mbox -spam spam-folder ; sa-learn -mbox -ham ma-folder"
15:09.06Leedssorry, they should be -- not -
15:09.15mozratpopey: I can upgrade if you like
15:09.26popeyheh
15:09.31popeylet me see if i can downgrade first
15:09.32popeyone mo
15:09.53popeyinstalling 0.3.0 now
15:10.01Leedsmorsing: note that if you're doing it properly, you *do* need to train on both spam and ham
15:10.33mozratpopey, before you get started I'm going to kill the server and start it again inside screen
15:10.36mozratone sec
15:10.37popeymozrat: what port number?
15:10.38popeyok
15:11.07mozrat6522
15:11.10popeyk
15:11.53mozratok - it's up
15:12.04mozratif anyone else wants to join - feel free
15:12.47popeyI'm in
15:19.11morsingIs there any way I can follow progress?
15:19.31morsingI'm leaving in 5 min. What happens if I ctrl-C it?
15:19.52popeyrun it in a screen?
15:20.35morsingpopey: OH it is actually :) Thanks
15:20.42popey:)
15:20.49z00daxstrace the process, that will give you a very good idea of whats going on
15:20.50z00dax:)
15:21.18morsingz00dax: And make it quicker?
15:22.43z00daxon a half decent machine sa-learn is io bound, stop other io tasks, should / might help
15:22.45morsingOn mine it's 100% CPU bound...
15:23.01morsingI/O wait is a constant 0 and CPU a constant 100
15:23.11z00daxpentium-2 ?
15:23.58morsingIII
15:24.07morsing1.1GHz
15:24.45z00daxp-3 should churn fairly quick... wont take too long, imho
15:24.57Leedsmorsing: did you actually read the man page?
15:25.29Leedsthere are at least two different ways to get it to show progress
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15:27.56mozratgobby++
15:29.01popey:)
15:35.42boudiccasWell, well, well! Using kontact you can drag emails to either the calendar or the to do list to make dated events connected to that email!
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15:36.34rhoweboudiccas: hurrah, Outlook's only had that for about 6+ years :P
15:37.01boudiccasrhowe; maybe, but i don't use MS stuff :)
15:38.30keithlardwhoo
15:38.37CliveHillsI try and avoid MS
15:39.01boudiccasI don't try, I succeed. :)
15:39.31CliveHillsWork forces me to use XP
15:39.40boudiccasSeriously, after having a year of dual boot to w2k, and not booting into it, i just wiped its partition and became completely linux based
15:40.28CliveHillsI only use linux at home
15:40.38CliveHills(well and Solaris and OS X)
15:41.15z00daxcan you not run linux on that hardware ? where you run Solaris and osx
15:41.26CliveHillsYou could yes
15:41.46CliveHillsHowever OS X and Solaris are also unixes
15:41.54z00daxbut not linux
15:42.28CliveHillsI'm a unix person as such
15:42.38CliveHillsNot specifically a linux one
15:42.44z00daxtragic!
15:42.48z00dax:D
15:43.06CliveHillsmostly I run linux on stuff
15:43.11cpufreakCliveHills: when you were at Demon, did you know a George Daflidis Kotis?
15:43.20CliveHillscpufreak: indeed
15:43.27keithlardhe has not been 'upgraded'! take him to the processing station!
15:43.27CliveHillsSat next to him
15:43.59CliveHillshe had a prodigious capacity for kebabs
15:45.32CliveHillsI started with SysV 2.1
15:46.16cpufreakCliveHills: see pm.
15:46.35CliveHillsCpu: I replied
15:49.33cpufreaknot in the pm window :o
15:49.36cpufreakcould you resend it?
15:51.03wethrinLeeds: ping?
15:52.33Leedswethrin: pong
15:53.45wethrinMay I request some stuff from your Disposal List?
15:53.55mozratwethrin: you already did!
15:54.03Leedsfor delivery, I assume?
15:54.26wethrinIf possible; if it's not convenient, I could try and come up to Hendon pre-Gllug
15:56.50wethrinLeeds: xbox, blank tapes, phone extension (I presume it's just cable+socket?), ipod car charger, WAP ?
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16:00.03LeedsHKwethrin: last thing I saw was "<mozrat> wethrin: you already did!'
16:03.05wethrinOkay
16:03.07wethrinIf possible; if it's not convenient, I could try and come up to Hendon pre-Gllug
16:03.11wethrinLeeds: xbox, blank tapes, phone extension (I presume it's just cable+socket?), ipod car charger, WAP
16:04.42wethrinhttp://bigboy.vmlinuz.org/moin/StuffToDisposeOf
16:05.04z00daxCliveHills: you need to register with NickServ in order to get pm's working
16:05.18CliveHillsI've done so now
16:05.22mozratOooh, I'd like the linksys WAP
16:05.33CliveHillswhat linksys is it?
16:06.11LeedsHKmozrat: do you not read the list?
16:06.20CliveHillsI've a WRT54GS v1.0 running openwrt
16:06.25z00daxLeedsHK: is that G450 a pci interface ?
16:06.31mozratLeedsHK: I think my stupid employer drops some GLLUG email
16:07.02mozratand I haven't been reading gmail that much
16:09.31LeedsHKokay, two points: firstly, I'm not bringing the lot with me to gllug - particularly, I'd prefer not to schlep the xbox, since it weighs a ton
16:10.06mozratheh
16:10.11LeedsHKsecondly, uh, nobody seems to have paid any attention to the "some of this stuff may actually be worth something - if so, please make me an offer" bit
16:10.12mozratLeedsHK: hire a van for the day
16:11.32z00daxLeedsHK: £20 for the G450  ( as long as its a PCI card )
16:11.53z00daxI have my charity side of things sorted, so this would be to you
16:12.24z00daxwould £20 be reasonable ?
16:12.52LeedsHKz00dax: just out of interest, why would you think it's PCI?
16:13.03LeedsHKsince it says AGP on the list...
16:13.16LeedsHK:-)
16:13.26z00daxdoh! it also says 400
16:13.46LeedsHKas it happens, I do have a PCI Matrox card around here somewhere...
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16:14.10wethrinLeedsHK: £50 + beer for the lot? I'm passing through London on Friday, so could nip up to Hendon and pick it up. Or pre-Gllug, if it'd be more convenient
16:14.23z00daxwith some luck, it might even be a 400 series!
16:14.44rhowez00dax: I *might* have an AGP G450 becoming surplus to requirements in a month or two
16:14.50rhowez00dax: G450 dualhead 32M DDR
16:15.42cpufreakI have a 4MB S3 Virge DX going spare :p
16:15.47z00daxrhowe: cool, I might get that off you as well then. a PCI, however, would be excellent
16:16.14LeedsHKparticularly, I'm thinking things like the WAP or the xbox are worth a little bit...
16:16.30z00daxLeedsHK: got a model number on that WAP?
16:17.31z00daxI am loosing track of the million rsync's I've got going at the moment, need to concentrate a bit. be back shortly..
16:18.26LeedsHKit's the bog standard 54G WPA
16:18.28LeedsHKWAP
16:19.50LeedsHKno, you can't run Linux on it
16:21.39wethrinLeedsHK: Or is £50+beer too low?
16:21.56LeedsHKwethrin: for what?
16:22.56wethrinxbox, blank tapes, phone extension (I presume it's just cable+socket?), ipod car charger, WAP
16:24.16LeedsHKmozrat: ping?
16:26.16Leedswethrin: the phone extension has a plug on one end and a socket on both, I think
16:26.42wethrinRight.
16:26.59wethrinIt'd be useful for me
16:27.27Leedsyeah, that's what it is...
16:27.51Leedswould still prefer if you could pickup the xbox - and I suppose the rest, if you could come here
16:29.54wethrinHow close are you to the nearest tube station?
16:30.24Leedsabout 25 minutes on foot - not close at all
16:30.47wethrinOh.....ADSL->ethernet modem could be useful - is it just a one-ethernet thing, or a built-in switch?
16:30.52wethrinLeeds: bus?
16:31.11Leeds1->1
16:31.44Leedsthere are busses, but they're not that frequent
16:31.56LeedsI suppose for 50+beer I could schlep the xbox :-)
16:32.00wethrinHm....could I put that on the list too?
16:32.05wethrinhurrah :)
16:32.07Leedsemail me...
16:32.23wethrinrichard - at - vmlinuz ?
16:32.34Leedsyup
16:32.45Leedswell, almost anything at that domain will get to me
16:33.11wethrinEeexcelllent
16:33.33wethrinBTW, there's a not-quite-mini-LBW at the Cittie of York in Holborn on Friday, if you're up for it
16:41.03cbzLBW?
16:41.12wethrinLinux Bier Wanderung
16:41.24wethrinRight. Hometime!
16:41.33CliveHillswithout mountains I assume
16:42.07wethrinIn this case
16:42.22CliveHillsThere being few near the Citte
16:42.53wethrinindeed. This centres on the second word :)
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16:59.52JohnDoe666wethrin: already had enough of that middle word yesterday with GeekLawyer and DrHyde..
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17:28.36cbzgah
17:35.40cbzIn ruby a method can't access a variable defined in the enclosing scope?
17:52.33keithlardi don't think so, unless it's global
17:54.11keithlardvariables are local by default
17:57.51mozratkeef!
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18:01.59murbJohnDoe666: lots of cidar?
18:02.53JohnDoe666not for me..
18:03.57JohnDoe666but with the first beer for lunch and the nice sun afterwards..
18:08.40cbzta keith
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19:53.28wethrinhello
19:59.39mozratHello
19:59.49mozratwethrin: sanity check me please...
19:59.59wethrinYou're insane
20:00.02mozratSection "Device" BoardName    "Radeon LW" BusID        "1:0:0" Driver       "radeon" Identifier   "Device[0]" Screen       0 VendorName   "ATI"
20:00.05mozratEndSection
20:00.16mozratthats the open source module correct?
20:03.28rhowemozrat: Yeah, I think fglrx or something is the non-free one
20:04.24mozratrhowe: thanks
20:04.59rhowemozrat: It's the one I run at work, although I'm not quite sure whether or not it supports much in the way of acceleration on the chip in my desktop
20:05.18rhowemozrat: I suspect not, but I haven't even worked out what name it knows my chipset by :P
20:06.40mozratrhowe: fsfe is asking someon based in London to go to a parliamentary consulation.
20:06.46mozratMS will be demoing Vista
20:07.04rhowemozrat: Hm.. seems fun
20:07.11rhowemozrat: Gonna go along with xgl? :)
20:07.30rhowemozrat: That's the kind of thing that some decent GNOME or KDE hacker should go ot
20:07.40rhowemozrat: Maybe we could invite ac down?
20:08.05mozratCould do indeed
20:08.16rhoweAlthough his schedule might be busy. When is it?
20:08.26mozratmid-October
20:08.49rhowemozrat: Hmm.. I wonder if I can find the IRC channel he hangs around on again... :)
20:09.12rhoweWhat's the consultation about?
20:10.08mozratone sec
20:10.49mozrathttp://beerandspeech.org/tmp/fsfe.txt
20:12.21mozratooh
20:12.25wethrinMmm....books
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20:13.27mozratLeedsHK: is "Vim improved" any good?
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20:14.40LeedsHKyes, except that there's a decent-length errata list somewhere, and it covers, I think, vim5
20:15.14mozratLeedsHK: how much do you want for that?
20:16.59LeedsHKa donation, at your discretion, to the Uganda project would do fine :-)  also - books probably aren't deliverable, unless someone can get me a parking space for Saturday and, possibly, a way to get home after a beer or 3
20:17.20cbzIndeed.
20:17.51mozratLeedsHK: No problem with the donation - I can provide parking on the day in Paddington for free
20:17.53cbzThere is an article somewhere about how much money they raised. I am pretty sure published in Linux Journal
20:18.17LeedsHKI am pretty much up to my limit on things I'm willing to carry on public transport apart from small light things
20:18.33cbzwut?
20:18.37LeedsHKI should clarify: parking space *at the meeting*
20:18.42cbzWhats happening? Whats going on? What are you carrying?
20:19.06LeedsHKoh, do keep up, cbz :-) http://bigboy.vmlinuz.org/moin/StuffToDisposeOf
20:19.23cbzbigboy = leeds?
20:19.35LeedsHKwell, yes, but... :-)
20:19.41cbzurm
20:19.52cbzI might possibly be there.
20:20.00LeedsHKbe where?
20:20.02cbz(at gllug)
20:20.07LeedsHKum, okay, great
20:20.49cbzThough I can't offer assistance with carrying stuff ;)
20:20.57LeedsHKcbz: vmlinuz.org is my domain. bigboy is my server
20:21.24cbzMost people would settle for an unimaginative 'www'
20:21.33LeedsHKlittleboy is my (offline) mac mini server in HK, and midiboy is my (offline) fileserver in HK
20:22.41LeedsHKoh, no... I haven't used www.vmlinuz.org for many years - I tend to use (www.)wanderingjew.co.uk for public stuff, but there's a wiki on bigboy.vmlinuz.org and there isn't one on wanderingjew - which is, of course, just a virtual server on bigboy, which is, of course, just a virtual server :-)
20:24.34LeedsHKcbz: anyway, if you want any of my junk, just mail me
20:25.00cbzYou are a Mizarhim ? (brain working slowly)
20:25.22LeedsHKuh, what?
20:25.52cbzwanderingjew/Arabic Jew reference earlier
20:27.05LeedsHKnah... I'm 3/4 Ashkenazi, 1/4 Sephardi
20:27.08LeedsHKare you Jewish?
20:27.25cbzOnly very slightly.
20:27.51LeedsHKwhat, only on Purim?
20:28.08cbzHeh no, 1/8.
20:28.54LeedsHKwell, fyi - I think you meant to say Mizrachi, which means Eastern, and means the same as Sephardi, which means Spanish, and is pluralised as Mizrachim
20:29.52cbzI thought it generally had a more 'of immediate middle eastern origin' connotation.
20:30.50LeedsHKit refers to the same people, in general, but there is a feeling that since their families left Spain in 1492, it might be time to stop calling them Spanish :-)
20:31.04cbzHeh
20:31.44LeedsHKthe point is that most of the Jews who left Spain went to Arab lands, so they became the 'Arab Jews' - and of course until 1492, Spain was at least partly an Arab (well, Moorish) country anyway
20:32.21LeedsHKso those who went north - which wasn't huge numbers - still feel a lot more Arabic than their northern european cousins
20:32.23cbzWell, i guess some of them would claim to have been in the Mahgreb/Middle-East before that.
20:32.30cbzStill, i guess everyone is touchy about their origins
20:33.00LeedsHKanyway - pick stuff off my list, come collect it, reduce my pile of crap which I don't want to throw away
20:33.16cbzWe all have piles of crap i suspect ;)
20:33.28cbzIf i asked for anything it would just add to my own pile of crap
20:34.06LeedsHKthe point is that some of it might be stuff people could use, and being largely obselete crap, might find hard to get through conventional routes
20:34.15cbzAt least books I have no use for can be given to the charity shop, computer crap otoh
20:34.31cbzI take it by the presence of the cuecat on the list that you now use some other form of barcode reader?
20:35.16LeedsHKI never used any barcode reader - I picked them up because they were free and I was in the US on business :-)
20:37.47cbzoh okay :) i was thinking the other day that one might be useful to categorise books
20:37.48murbi rember giving away a laser barcode scanner
20:37.56murbbut i think i got it back...
20:38.04murbi gave it to a small bookshop..
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20:38.39cbzHeh
20:39.12cbzI think you promised mozrat your laptop
20:39.17cbzI distinctly remember it
20:39.17LeedsHKmozrat: if you want the vim book, you're welcome to it as long as a) you give something to the Ugandans, and b) you collect it
20:39.26LeedsHKnah, that's already promised to my dad
20:39.30JAVhello
20:39.34LeedsHKevening JAV
20:39.53cbzTBH the best VI tutorial are those two text files from nvi
20:40.02cbzWritten by whatsisface
20:42.28LeedsHKibot remind me to take my food out of the oven in 23 minutes
20:57.19cbzheh
20:59.03mozratYay - Diana is back!
20:59.21cpufreakDiana who?
20:59.24cpufreakRoss?
20:59.26cpufreakSpencer?
20:59.41mozratDiana Scott
21:00.12mozratYou may not recognise the name straight away but she had a spot of fame on the GLLUG mailing list last year
21:00.36cbzA claire squires-esque sort of fame?
21:00.42mozratI think so
21:00.46mozrat(who is she?)
21:04.35rhowehm, on those 'anti-terror raids', one person was taken from "a Chinese restaurant in the Borough area of south London"
21:04.38rhoweI wonder which one
21:05.03rhowemozrat: Henry's fan :)
21:05.45mozratrhowe: that's her
21:11.21rhoweJeeeeezuss.... What is it with the people who live here and Gnarls Barkley?!
21:11.30rhoweThe pub must plat it at least once every hour
21:11.39rhoweIt's like the guy upstairs who plays Sultans of Swing nonstop for hours on end
21:11.56wethrinNothing wrong with the Sultans of Swing
21:12.13rhowewethrin: There is when it's played for 5 hours nonstop
21:12.35LeedsHKrhowe: I did see the name of the Chinese place at one point
21:12.44rhoweLeedsHK: Loon Fung?
21:13.03LeedsHKdunno
21:13.52mozratLooks like our October meeting *might* be the first night of the Expo
21:13.58mozratNovell might do a Xen talk
21:14.26rhowe"Twelve of the suspects were arrested at The Bridge to China Town, a halal eatery in Borough"
21:14.33cbzHeh
21:14.40cbzYes, a halal chinese restaurant
21:14.56rhowegrr
21:15.03rhowegoogle maps just crashed Firefox
21:15.29rhowehm.. every time
21:16.54wethrinrhowe: Point, I suppose
21:19.22rhowestreetmap :)
21:19.28rhowesimplicity = win :)
21:19.45rhoweOK, so the restaurant was at least 10 minutes walk away from here
21:25.28LeedsHKdon't suppose there are any particularly German-speaking people around?
21:25.56antiphaseScheiße
21:27.06LeedsHKantiphase: what does that mean? :-)
21:27.28antiphaseShit
21:28.12LeedsHKis that a no then? :-)
21:29.05antiphaseI did GCSE German 12 years ago
21:29.20LeedsHKyeah, probably not what he's after :-)
21:29.22wethrinyou want something translated?
21:29.25LeedsHKyeah
21:29.47wethrinWhich way?
21:29.53LeedsHKhttp://www.computerbase.de/forum/showthread.php?t=221603 - info on a beta BIOS for an ASUS board
21:29.55LeedsHKGerman->English
21:30.46wethrinLeedsHK: Nip on over to #lbw - there's some native German speakers over there
21:30.58wethrinSome may wake up on prodding
21:31.38LeedsHKwethrin: want to do me a favour and introduce me?
21:31.51LeedsHKwhile I part from #lwb :-)
21:32.06wethrin:)
21:34.07LeedsHKmozrat: BTW, you never answered my question above
21:35.28mozrata question?
21:36.13mozratOh the book? Yes please - unsure how I can get it from you though
21:37.15LeedsHKwell, that was sort of the question - can you collect it?
21:37.55mozratto be honest. I doubt it. I'm manically busy at work at the moment.
21:38.03mozrathow much would postage be?
21:38.11mozratnot more than a few shillings right?
21:38.54LeedsHKsorry - no posting
21:39.09mozratk, I leave it unfortunatelt
21:39.12mozraty
21:39.32mozratI won't have time to trek up to you in the next few weeks
21:39.44LeedsHKsorry - if I start posting I'll end up having to package stuff, buy stamps, get money back, etc. etc. and it's quite a long list...
21:39.47mozratthanks though
21:39.55mozratyeah, I understand
21:41.46LeedsHKprobably end up storing the books, or giving them to a charity shop or something - I can't bring myself to throw a book in the bin
21:41.59mozrat:)
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21:45.15Leedsokay, this connection is nice and fast, but has regular dropouts
21:45.25wethrinHmmm
22:05.40rhoweon bbc4 atm - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328258/
22:09.36Leedsno bbc4 here :-(
22:12.53iTronrhowe: I just put the TV on now. ;)
22:14.02rhoweiTron: Not sure I can stick it through for the full 1h55m, but we'll see
22:16.58iTronrhowe: Good luck ;)
22:17.13rhowe"Our snack food industry is all messed up" - you got that right!
22:18.00rhowepdr: Any chance you can ask Martina if she's heard of Poprad? That's where my friends are planning to go
22:21.04mozratnn all
22:22.37iTronmozrat: nnight
22:23.18Leedsnight
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22:59.55Leedstoy story++
23:03.35Leedsalthough slightly odd to see "Screenplay by Joss Whedon" at the start :-)
23:22.18z00daxI havent yet found a decent'ish pci vga for my Alpha Workstation/axp
23:25.46z00daxor maybe i have
23:45.41pdrrhowe: I've been there.  Nice place.
23:46.19pdrNear to the High Tatras, so I guess they're flying to Poprad and heaing up hill from there?
23:51.11pdrMe and Martina watched "The Path to 9/11" tonight, and at the end she asks where the plane that crashed in the field was supposed to target.  So I said that I don't think they know or will ever know.  So she says "Did they ask Saddam when they caught him?" *sigh*
23:52.04pdrof course when I said that he wasn't even religious she was like "but I saw him on TV when they caught him for terrorism!"
23:52.55Leedsugh
23:54.24rhowepdr: How far from the nearest slopes is it?
23:54.51rhowepdr: I think they're planning to be based in Poprad and head up each day

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