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06:15.29morsing'morning
06:17.13Leedshello
06:26.06morsingHow do I write £ in Latex?
06:28.51morsingLeeds?
06:29.44morsing\pounds
06:30.25LeedsI haven't written any latex in about 9 years
06:31.55morsingNice
06:32.00morsingGood for you
06:32.30Leedsand now, since my phone is charged, I'm going out... have a nice day
06:33.03morsingMoo
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07:18.03morsingSlayerXP!
07:18.09SlayerXPmorning
07:19.07morsingSlayerXP: Are you having fun?
07:19.20SlayerXPshould I be?
07:19.54morsingYes - having fun is important
07:20.24SlayerXPwell, apart from the hangover, yes, I probably am
07:25.29morsingSlayerXP: You coming for a drink tonight?
07:25.40SlayerXPi'm on call, sorry
07:25.52SlayerXPno drinkies
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07:26.46morsingdeep-blue!
07:32.59deep-blueola
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08:10.02serrishi morsing
08:18.00sabinef72morning !
08:20.25morsingsabinef72!
08:20.31morsingserris!
08:20.37serrishi sabinef72 : )
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08:53.48morsingTo encourage you all to take part we are now suggesting a charge of £5 for those taking part and £10 for those not.
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08:59.04skuggbah.
08:59.19skuggI'm going to take my /part then.
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09:09.14trousers_laptop'Ning
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09:51.40popeymorning all
10:02.23rhoweHey, cool! http://www.yawarra.com.au/hw-cases.php#net4801
10:02.30rhoweDecent cases for the Soekris
10:03.44merlinnthey're quite expensive
10:06.30murbi'd be happy with a decent powe rsupply.
10:06.37murbthe one i have is good at killing DSL lines.
10:08.53morsingrhowe: Cominng tonight?
10:09.11rhowemorsing: To the maddog thing?
10:09.17rhowemorsing: Hmm.. quite possibly
10:09.33rhowemurb: The Soekris PSU?
10:09.45trousers_laptopMor{n,s}ing
10:09.50murbrhowe: yep
10:10.14morsingNice
10:10.19rhowemurb: I've had a dodgy one too - it only occasionally booted the Soekris
10:10.23murbor atleast the brick that came with mine from k[0-9][0-9].[:whatever:]
10:10.30rhowemurb: The .be folks
10:10.34murbyep
10:10.48rhowemurb: I bought a couple from him at FOSDEM 2 years ago IIRC
10:11.04rhowemurb: Can't remember if the dodgy PSU was from one of those or the one I got from the US
10:11.07murbI have one that was at a client site servering a s a firewall
10:11.31murbbut they blamed it for killing their DSL.
10:11.38murbso i had to install a replacement.
10:11.43rhoweibot change 220 aud to gbp
10:13.31antiphaseBonza
10:14.43rhowemerlinn: Hm.. the cases don't look too badly priced actually
10:15.03rhowemerlinn: I'm not sure what the chances of Soekris maintaining their form factor are though
10:15.24merlinnthey tend to get smaller than larger
10:15.43merlinnbut I'd say those cases are quite expensive when you compare them to appliance PCs you can buy
10:15.46merlinnwhite box
10:15.49morsingCheck it!
10:18.26rhowemerlinn: You mean like the mini ITX PCs and the things designed for Windows MCE?
10:19.04morsingBeer
10:20.12merlinnyeah
10:20.22merlinnthe little flash disk based thingies
10:20.47goibhniuhmmm ... what are the chances I brought down my network by running ethereal/wireshark? I just hit the capture button and the firewall and internet connection died :(
10:20.58goibhniucoincidence?
10:26.53antiphaseDepends why you were using it. It may have been karma
10:29.08goibhniuthe thing is the network was being a bit sluggish so I thought I'd fire it up and see what was happening, but I don't know much about it so I freaked out when everything fell over
10:29.33goibhniuI was just explaining to a guy in the office how it could be used for sniffing credit card details etc
10:29.45goibhniuthere were major reprocussions
10:30.04goibhniuvpn went down, intranet, cms etc
10:30.06antiphaseBeing a cracker automatically makes you a massive cock, obviously ;)
10:30.21goibhniuof course I wasn't sniffing anything
10:30.32goibhniuI was just trying to explain what it does
10:30.36Leeds"Sniffing Ethernet for Fun and Profit"
10:30.49Leedsalso, good evening all
10:30.50goibhniuI was hoping to see the requests bouncing off a sickly dns server or something
10:30.59goibhniuevenin Leeds
10:34.04goibhniuI wonder if there is any conceivable way that it could have had an effect, is it even possible to detect if it's running on a network? It's time to look for a job stacking shelves if there is
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10:34.17Leedsshouldn't be
10:34.23morsingwetelectric!
10:34.27wetelectrichello!
10:34.42Leedsevening wetelectric...
10:34.46wetelectricI went to the linuxexpo yesterday and I thought i'd say hello
10:34.50antiphaseHow are the estates on the Riviera these days?
10:35.01Leedsantiphase: demonic, apparently
10:35.11antiphase:O
10:35.53Leedswetelectric: so, apart from the expo, how has your week been?
10:36.04Erwingoibhniu: It might be that the "promiscous" wire of the Ethernet cable was connected directly to the power. They sometimes wire them that way in high-security installations. Then as soon as you start packet sniffing, current courses through all of the network, destroying network cards.
10:37.00goibhniuErwin: shite! any idea where I could read up on this?
10:37.15goibhniuI couldn't find anything on the wireshark site
10:38.28goibhniuahh promiscuous sniffing gets lots of interesting stuff
10:38.33goibhniufeck
10:39.43wetelectricalthough right now im being forced to work...at work
10:39.46wetelectricshsocking
10:39.52wetelectric*shocking
10:44.05Leedstoday's examples of great English: an English language teaching centre advertising itself as "Britich owned"... a shop proudly advertising its name as "Golden Toilet"... and a bakery with a sign saying "Beware ambustion" on the hot plate
10:45.14Leedsalthough I now discover that 'ambustion' apparently does mean 'a burn or scald' - it's certainly not commonplace English :-)
10:46.13LeedsWebster's from 1913 describes it as obselete...
10:47.02murbwbesters was an evil unauthorised fork of the englisch language.
10:49.07Leedsthe point is that if it was obselete in 1913, and I, having a reasonably extensive vocabulary, don't recall ever being aware of the word before, it's fair to say it's very obselete now
10:49.36Leedsso to come across it in a little bakery in a nice - but very very quiet - shopping centre in Hong Kong is interesting
10:50.26murbLeeds: it might not be obselete in .hk
10:50.30morsingHow much should I expect to pay to have a drain cleared?
10:50.44murb3 fingers and a toe.
10:50.50Leedsmurb: trust me, it is
10:54.25morsingSo, more than £200?
10:54.57Leedsmorsing: call dynarod and ask them
10:55.03Leedsdynorod?
10:57.01antiphaseA tub of caustic soda only costs a few quid
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10:59.53deepblue-pdaafternoon gents & ladies
11:01.10deepblue-pdaor not, as the case may be
11:01.20antiphaseIt is now
11:02.32Leedsokay...
11:09.50Leedskeithlard_: sending over infrared from a Palm?
11:10.09keithlard_nope :D
11:10.13keithlard_just cheery
11:10.18Leedsgood! why?
11:11.37goibhniuErwin: I can't really find anything relating to a "promiscuous wire", I'm reluctant to include it in a report without any sources ... any tips?
11:12.14antiphaseIt's often difficult to discover information about non-existent entities
11:13.13goibhniuwell google got me to a couple of lesbian sites but I couldn't find anything about ethernet cables there :(
11:13.37goibhniuok, so there's no such thing
11:13.52antiphasewtf is a promiscuous wire supposed to be anyway?
11:14.14goibhniuit sounded very impressive when Erwin said it
11:14.52antiphaseAh, I just saw that. It's nonsense ;)
11:16.05goibhniubut I guess it is possible that setting an ethernet card to promiscuous mode would be a network policy violation?
11:16.35Leedsantiphase: it's the pin you set high to tell all the other switches on the network to please send you everyone's traffic
11:17.11goibhniudrat, now I'm convinced again
11:19.48antiphasepmsl
11:21.21Leedspmsl?
11:22.40goibhniuis there really a wire dedicated to setting promiscuous mode?
11:23.14LeedsI cannot answer that question...
11:24.14Leeds... not with a straight face, anyway
11:25.35goibhniuhehe ... ok, I'm a fool
11:26.04keithlard_in my day you had to make and deploy an etherkiller before you were initiated into the official mysteries of network admin
11:28.41goibhniuthey still haven't got the network back up ... so the thought of a power surge destroying all the network cards really had me going
12:08.02eyorejoy
12:08.19eyoreour office ISP got brought by talktalk
12:08.54eyorecurrently I have 20% packet loss to the exchange and an average 4 second latency
12:09.09SlayerXPeye69: <nelson> HAH HA </nelson>
12:09.19SlayerXPerr eyore even
12:09.38eyoreheh thanks
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12:45.33morsingJasperw!
13:19.12rhoweeyore: haha
13:19.27eyorebelated, bu thanks :)
13:19.54eyoreor perhaps the the 1 hour delay was my latency again
13:20.02rhoweeyore: heh
13:20.09rhoweeyore: Who was your ISP, OOI?
13:20.21rhoweonetel?
13:20.40eyoreyes
13:20.46eyoreonetel
13:20.50rhoweChrist, their website's slow to load
13:20.54eyorenot my choice, shared office
13:21.06rhoweROFL, and their front page asks you to log in. Genuious
13:21.24rhowe14:20 <@DaMuppet> cpw got onetel ages ago
13:21.24rhowe14:21 <@DaMuppet> smack him for not moving b4
13:21.40eyorenot my choice
13:22.00eyoremy home isp bulldog was also brought
13:22.05rhowe*nod*
13:22.15eyorewhen i'm earning again i'm going to buy something resonable again like zen
13:23.36rhoweUKFSN?
13:23.45eyorehuh?
13:23.53rhowehttp://www.ukfsn.org/
13:25.35eyorelooks interesting, though zen were very good
13:25.44morsingping moz
13:34.25wethrinBlackcat!
13:34.55wethrinPeople have been having problems with ukfsn
13:35.02wethrinAnd BCN gives IPv6
13:35.29murbif you want the bbc multicast foo choose an isp that is taking part in the trials.
13:35.37wethrinmurb: Such as?
13:36.14murbsee http://support.bbc.co.uk/multicast/
13:38.34eyorezen is on the trial
13:39.34morsingwethri!
13:39.46wethrinOh, cool, Hotchili is on the trial
13:39.53wethrinSo I can use my (parents') home DSL
13:40.12wethrinAnd JANET, so I can do it from work
13:40.33murbwethrin: well that might require your janetmember to also cooperate.
13:40.41murband maybe they would then require tv licenses.
13:40.51murb(yes this is all just a poly for extending the tv licnse to computers)
13:40.58murbs/poly/ploy/
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13:41.39wethrinI have a TV licence
13:42.11murbdoes your university?
13:42.30murbwethrin: does your colocated server/
13:42.38wethrinYes, the University does
13:42.53wethrinMy colo server should be covered by my licence. Anyway, I can't view videos on it
13:43.05wethrinLike a caravan would be covered by your home licence
13:43.07boudiccasanybody here a moinmoin guru please? I need some advice re configuration.
13:43.22murbwethrin: in germany from the 1st of Jan it might well be covered :(
13:43.42wethrinDo you have TV licencing in Germany?
13:43.53wethrinmurb: You coming to Dusseldorf in December?
13:44.11murbwethrin: certainly not.
13:46.14wethrinBah
13:46.46murbi already regretted going to koeln before.
13:47.13wethrinwhy?
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13:56.27morsingdanip!
13:56.49daniphi morsing
13:57.02daniphow's it going?
14:00.20morsingdanip: Not the best...
14:00.39danipwhat happens? It's friday!
14:04.28danipanyone knows a nice place to visit on docklands?
14:12.53eyorelol
14:12.53eyoreno
14:15.56danip:)
14:18.11mozratguys, did my last mail to the mailing list re expo and maddog get through?
14:18.46boudiccasmozrat; did you get todays 'Stress Busters'?
14:19.23Leedsmozrat: last message I see from you was yesterday
14:19.35mozratyep :-)
14:19.46boudiccasmozrat; I haven't caught up with my backlog of emails yet, but I saw your most recent blog posting on 'Planet GLLUG'
14:19.51morsingmozrat: How's it?
14:19.59boudiccasmozrat; ty :)
14:22.37mozratmorsing, good.... driving.... at red lights
14:22.51mozrathmm, where did that message go then?
14:23.09Leedsmozrat: south for the winter?
14:24.38mozratmust be
14:26.17mozratLeeds, can you change topic pls. next event 11th November
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14:29.15Leedsanyone who is bored should join  #trivia
14:29.31mozratLeeds, I'll have to do it later... i'm on my blackberry atm
14:29.45Leedsno worries
14:35.01morsingMozzie?
14:36.20mozratyo!
14:37.43morsingThere are no open or pending problems in the log.
14:43.34boudiccasnow this is useful for all those who love moleskines ... http://www.robhinchcliffe.co.uk/2006/10/stationery_porn_moleskine_city.html
14:50.03morsingmozrat: Probably won't be able to make tonight :(
14:50.22popeymozrat!
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15:07.58mozratmorsing, no - you must come
15:08.07mozrathey popey!!
15:09.10wethrinfoo
15:10.05mozratwethrin
15:10.51wethrinmozzie!
15:12.05morsingmozrat: Blame Cope
15:12.34mozratwhy?
15:13.18Erwin"Bobby", the Estevez movie about Robert Kennedy's assassination was quite good. It's amazing to listen to one of his speeches and compare with the political discourse these days.
15:22.05LeedsErwin: you really got to goibhniu before :-)
15:24.37morsingmozrat: Because he kicked up a fuss today which is why I'm still at work...
15:25.19goibhniuabsolutely :D ... I could never force myself to learn about networking before because it seemed so boring ... at least now I know there isn't a "promiscuous wire" ... which is something I guess
15:26.54ErwinHehe. well, there are actually methods to detect whether a card is in promiscous mode, though it's not likely to bring down the network, unless your OS is extremely bad.
15:27.21goibhniuwell I did run it from XP so who knows
15:29.10keithlardmozrat, did you make any t-shirts in the end?
15:29.18goibhniubut what are the chances ... I hit the capture button and within seconds we found that the network was dead
15:29.53Erwincorrelation is not causation
15:31.21Erwinthough the expert that argued something similar with probabilities, in the Sally Clark was reinstated today
15:32.06goibhniu:D
15:32.10morsingmozrat: Just confirmed - I can't go tonight
15:32.12morsing:(
15:35.47Leedsscrew this - I'm not sitting in at home on IRC all night... time to go get some booze
15:37.46mozratkeithlard: no, the corporation who promised to sponser them pulled out :(
15:40.25mozratmorsing: We'll miss you
15:40.28mozratesp. Mad Dog
15:41.15*** topic/#gllug by mozrat -> Greater London LUG - Next event is Sat. 11th November - InstallFest, Introduction to GNU/Linux and Xen. http://gllug.org.uk http://planet.gllug.org.uk
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15:41.59morsingmozrat: Say hi to Maddog from me
15:42.50wethrinAnd me!
15:43.01wethrinI bet he won't remember me, though!
15:43.23boudiccasmozrat; is gllugs events -=always=- on the 2nd satuday of the month?
15:43.34boudiccas*saturday
15:44.17Leedshah, there;s no *always*
15:44.23Leedsno way he'll remember me
15:44.56boudiccasLeeds; you still in? thought you were going out :)
15:45.07boudiccasLeeds; btw, i'm now 2nd :)
15:46.52boudiccasLeeds; btwm i'm now 1st! :)
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16:05.34morsingrandom1658!
16:05.42morsingrandom1658: iTron?
16:17.41mozratboudiccas: nope
16:18.12mozratmorsing: wethrin: will do (probably not as I'll then have to explain who you both are, and I doubt he'll really remember)
16:18.30wethrinmozrat: I was at UKUUG in Edinburgh, and am often as FOSDEM
16:18.41mozratboudiccas: is the second Sat. bad for you? In fact they are normally later in the month
16:18.50mozratbut I was too busy/lazy to organise one in October :(
16:24.04Erwin[: 1: ==: unexpected operator
16:24.11Erwin?? Why has bash started to say that?
16:24.39Erwin[ beta-test == main -o beta-test == test ] is the code. looks OK to me and gives no error when run.
16:27.36wethrinUse single -
16:27.37wethrinEr
16:27.37wethrin=
16:27.45wethrinIf you're comparing strings
16:29.32ErwinHmm, wonder how that worked before
16:30.14ErwinNo ,this isn't right.
16:31.16Erwinoops, no, it was right, I managed to somhoewscrewup my script
16:32.10wethrinPubtime!
16:43.37morsingBeer
16:44.22mozratif you are drinking beer you should be rushing to Kensington
16:44.23mozrat!
16:44.50morsingI'm at the DC :(
16:44.58mozratData Centre?
16:45.11morsingYes
16:45.20eyoreCopy and Paste stops working again
16:45.23morsingNice
16:45.25eyorenext time i buy a mac
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16:52.27morsingtrousers!
16:52.49trousersCheck it! :P
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16:53.21morsingBeer
16:54.57morsingTool
17:08.32morsingTwat!?!
17:11.36keithlard??
17:15.07morsingMy friend, whos server I monitor HTTP and SSH on, has redirected port 80 on his router to point to SSH without telling me
17:15.27morsingNo wonder I've been  getting 200 emails with "invaid HTTP response"!
17:17.38morsingibot beat up my friend!
17:17.39ibotACTION beats up my friend! with a very wet, sticky noodle
17:17.59morsingThanks ibot :)
17:20.59trousersibot slap morsing with a big wet fish
17:21.01ibotACTION slaps morsing with a big wet fish, keep your grubby fingers to yourself!
17:21.11trousersWow, it worked :o
17:21.25morsingNice
17:22.03trousersibot slap ibot
17:22.04ibotACTION slaps ibot, keep your grubby fingers to yourself!
17:31.56morsingping wethrin
17:32.20morsinghttp://www.morsing.cc/www/munin/morsing.cc/emil.morsing.cc-postfix_mailqueue.html
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17:42.21boudiccasmozrat; 2nd Saturday of the month is =-=always=-= my knitting circle, which I don't like to miss :)
17:45.57sabinef72hi
17:49.02morsingsabinef72!
17:49.12sabinef72morsing !!!!!!
17:49.32morsingsabinef72: I'm in Amsterdam between the 24th and 26th
17:49.54morsing:( :( :(
17:50.11morsing:(
17:50.42sabinef72can't you change your week end ?
17:51.00morsingDon't think so... Will see
17:51.20sabinef72try please
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18:01.03Gundegood evening
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18:31.28morsingcatalyst!
18:31.33catalystmorsing!
18:31.44morsingcatalyst: Cheer up!
18:31.49catalystcheer up? :)
18:32.02morsingBeer
18:32.39catalystBeer!
18:35.20serrismorning morsing
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18:50.13catalystgood plan!
18:50.17trousersHmm, Synergy is quite funky
18:50.20morsingBut no eer...
18:50.28morsingMmm... funky
18:50.43morsingtrousers!
18:50.48trousersmorsing!
18:51.04trousersWe must meet one day -_-
18:51.09morsingYes :)
18:51.15morsingWith beer
18:51.37trousersFor you, if you must
18:54.10morsingNo beer?
18:54.16morsingBeer is good!
18:54.20morsingibot beer
18:54.22ibotACTION has disconnected (Read error: 99 (Connection reset by beer))
18:54.31morsingibot coffee
18:54.50GundeIs only beer acceptable?
18:55.43morsingYes
18:57.24deep-blueevenin folks
18:57.35morsingdeep-blue1
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19:01.42trousersWait, that's port...
19:02.00trousers:)
19:02.41Gunde*g* My housemate sits in the living room wearing jacket and hat while watching TV... simply too cold
19:03.08xotlare you conserving energy to save the planet?
19:03.49GundeNo, the letting agency still couldn't make the plumber fix the heating that broke on Tuesday, or the gas fire that broke in the middle of August
19:04.26GundeI feel the need of a more powerful or a more ineffective pc that creates more heat
19:05.13Gundeand a hose attached to the psu fan blowing warm air under the table
19:07.01xotleveryone should wear a jacket and hat indoors so that the UK can meet our carbon emission targets
19:08.01morsingRemote heating
19:08.41xotlmorsing: what is remote heating?
19:09.22GundeCan I wear a duvet too?
19:10.16xotlGunde: you should wear a jacket an hat in bed as well to ensure that you never need heating all winter
19:11.25GundeI prefer warm water bottles with ears (:
19:11.32Gundeaka somebody to snuggle up to
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19:28.57boudiccasis mozilla web page/site down does anhone know please, because i can't reach it from two browsers
19:29.22serrisworks fine for me
19:29.56db^cleaninghay serris
19:29.59serrishi
19:30.06boudiccasodd, perhpas i need another shilling in the meter then? :)
19:30.22db^cleaningboudiccas: try openDNS
19:30.48boudiccasdb^cleaning; what is openDNS?
19:31.28db^cleaningreplace your ISPs dns servers with much faster and more reliable ones
19:31.40db^cleaninghas helped me loads with blueyonders sluggish and buggy ones
19:32.13boudiccaswell that doesn't help with my one only linux box here at home
19:32.49db^cleaningyer it will, you just change your dns settings (ask serris for his dns editor), and pages repond quicker
19:33.42xotlcan you actually tell its faster?
19:33.49db^cleaningoh ya!
19:33.53db^cleaningand im on a 10mbit line
19:34.13serrisI gave the towel in. I changed the DHCP to a static IP. I'm hoping that'll do the trick cause I'm getting tired of things borking up cause of the reset
19:34.25db^cleaninglol
19:34.30xotlwouldnt that mean that ISPs dns is extremely slow?
19:34.59db^cleaningxotl: yea, blueyonders (here at home) and BT business (work) are sluggish
19:35.07boudiccasah, its working again :)
19:35.36xotlhow do you use it, just change your dns addresses?
19:35.41db^cleaningyup
19:35.44db^cleaningopendns.org
19:35.59xotlhm ok I'll try it
19:37.03morsingBaa
19:38.38boudiccasook
19:39.06xotlpractising your random words again, morsing?
19:39.34morsingxotl: Yes
19:40.07xotlI think you will soon be a master of saying random words
19:40.26morsingBoke
19:40.37boudiccasread it
19:40.46morsingboudiccas: Read what?
19:40.48morsing:)
19:40.49boudiccasmorsing; Check It
19:40.54morsingCheck what?
19:43.09boudiccasbeer
19:43.10morsingboudiccas: Sorry, that's not random enough
19:43.10morsingLeeds?
19:45.55serrisdb^cleaning: what's the IP for opendns?
19:46.08db^cleaning208.67.222.222
19:46.12db^cleaning208.67.220.220
19:46.33serristhanks
19:48.17xotlhow do the opendns guys make money?
19:48.45db^cleaningadsense + donations + sponsoring i guess
19:50.11xotlah I see how they do it
19:50.30xotlyeah, when you type in a bad address
19:51.23xotlits fine, though. not intrusive
19:51.31db^cleaningyer
19:51.34db^cleaningand its usefulll
19:53.10xotlI'll use opendns for a bit see how it goes. thanks for the tip db^cleaning
19:53.29db^cleaningnp
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20:14.33trousersOkay, can somebody tell me a simple solution to getting a hostname working on my domain?
20:15.09trousersAs in a link or whatever on the theory behind/how to set up a hostname so I can get shell.trousers.ath.cx ftp.trousers.ath.cx etc. working
20:15.56boudiccastrousers; I'd love to learn how too :)
20:16.09trousersI'm also having trouble with .htaccess :(
20:17.18db^cleaningtrousers: buy a pro dyndns account
20:17.27trousersI will not pay.
20:17.36rhowehm.. who's gone to the maddog thing?
20:17.45db^cleaningthen you cant
20:17.47trousersI know it can be done - but I don't know how
20:18.47db^cleaningnot without purchasing a domain, and having access to the configs for it
20:18.59trousersReally? Oh :(
20:19.02db^cleaningyea
20:20.01trousersSo I don't actually need a DNS server?
20:20.31db^cleaningwell, yes normally
20:21.09trousersOh, right, I see. So once it forwards it to me I need to deal with it still
20:21.20db^cleaningyer
20:21.28trousersCheers
20:21.29db^cleaningtrick is
20:21.33trousersAny help with .htaccess?
20:21.41db^cleaninginstall a dnyDNS client per machine
20:21.56db^cleaningreg shell-trousers.ath.cx web-trousers.ath.cx etc
20:22.02db^cleaningand use a router to redirect ports
20:22.20trousersYeah, but it's not the same :)
20:23.36trousersI'm trying to create a private Wiki for my reference, but .htaccess won't block access :(
20:24.38boudiccasuse moinmoin
20:25.08trousersI have the wiki
20:25.15trousersBut anybody can access it
20:26.02keithlard_what does your .htaccess say
20:26.49keithlard_and do you have 'allowoverride authconfig' switched on in httpd.conf?
20:28.36keithlard_trousers> you can buy a domain fairly cheaply from somewhere like easyspace.com
20:28.47keithlard_and they will serve the DNS for you
20:28.49db^cleaningukreg.com = £5 for 2 years for a .co.uk
20:30.11keithlard_or you can use the dyndns free service and get something like trousers.dyndns.org
20:30.20db^cleaningkeithlard_: thats what he has
20:30.31db^cleaningbut it doesnt offer the subdomains he wants
20:31.16keithlard_of course, you're at liberty to set up your own DNS server which you control, and persuade everyone in the whole world to use it :D
20:32.41trouserskeithlard_: Yes, i do have that in my httpd.conf now, and http://paste.biz/paste-66.html
20:32.58keithlard_.htaccess files are a pain to debug anyway; it's better to put the equivalent directives into a file in /etc/httpd/conf.d and so forth
20:34.26rhoweJAAS++
20:34.51keithlard_what dat
20:34.56rhowekeithlard_: Oh do you know, off the top of your head if there's an Apache auth module which will authenticate against another HTTP server?
20:35.01rhowekeithlard_: PAM for Java, basically :)
20:35.08keithlard_very nice
20:35.18keithlard_not off the top of my head....
20:35.29keithlard_is it frightfully difficult to write auth modules?
20:35.38rhoweNot really
20:35.57rhowefrightfully scary to have a site's security depend on one you wrote though :)
20:36.19rhowekeithlard_: Probably a chunk more work than my Java one took :)
20:36.52keithlard_i see what you mean
20:37.39keithlard_trousers> and did you restart apache and what happens when you go to that URL?
20:37.48keithlard_what shows up in the access log
20:37.51trousersOooh, I got it working-ish
20:38.19trousersWhere is the apache config file?
20:38.25trousers*log
20:38.43keithlard_usually /var/log/httpd or similar
20:38.56keithlard_http://paste.biz/paste-67.html
20:39.08rhowetrousers: grep Log /etc/apache/httpd.conf
20:39.18trousersI found the log :)
20:39.29rhowetrousers: and in sites-enabled if you're using apache2 - should be a configuration directive telling apache where to dump its chatter
20:39.40keithlard_see you can put that in a file called eg /etc/apache/conf.d/mywiki
20:39.44keithlard_(for example)
20:39.57keithlard_and you don't need your htaccess file anymore
20:40.40trousersWhat is conf.d?
20:40.49keithlard_.htaccess dates from when web servers were so amazing and expensive that lots of people had to share one, so they all needed to maintain independent access control...
20:41.16keithlard_anything in conf.d will be read by apache as though it was part of httpd.conf
20:42.55keithlard_is it morally wrong that i'm enjoying looking through other people's completely unrelated pastebin posts? :D
20:43.39trousersYes.
20:43.48trousersARGH! I NEED TO GET RID OF GENTOO
20:43.59trousersAnd put Debian on my server :)
20:44.14rhowekeithlard_: Introduce subtle bugs!
20:44.27trousersYou tit :P
20:44.30keithlard_that pretty much happens by itself when i write code
20:44.49rhoweReally? My bugs are all glaringly awful :P
20:46.05keithlard_well, if you do everything test-first, the only bugs that make it into production *are* subtle ones :D
20:46.13keithlard_but they're real buggers...
20:46.19rhoweheh
20:46.34rhoweLike the one where my loginmodule randomly assigns you a different identity sometimes? :)
20:46.42keithlard_we found a good one the other day in wordtracker...
20:47.17keithlard_which nuked the entire live database
20:47.35keithlard_*annoyed grunt*
20:47.53rhowefun!
20:48.15keithlard_it's an ancient perl script that does the rollout
20:48.28rhoweYou know you shouldn't precede SELECT with DROP DATABASE :)
20:48.56keithlard_drop database 'live-oh-shit-i-meant-test'
20:49.59rhoweeasier than heading to Kensington
20:50.03keithlard_"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people
20:50.03keithlard_always bitch about and those nobody uses."
20:50.03keithlard_- Bjarne Stroustrup
20:50.16keithlard_later.Z!
20:52.32boudiccasif i've installed wordpress onto my system from a FC4 repo, how do i access the program please?
20:53.37keithlard_try rpm -ql wordpress |grep bin to see what the executable is
20:54.41keithlard_ah, it's a web thing
20:54.59keithlard_point a web browser at the appropriate place
20:55.19keithlard_maybe helpful: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
20:57.59boudiccaskeithlard_; ty :)
20:58.27boudiccasleffe? que?
20:58.36keithlard_it is a belgian abbey beer
20:58.50keithlard_dark, malty and packs a knockout punch!
20:59.01boudiccasah, i'm supping my home-brew :)
20:59.08keithlard_ooh! excitemint!
20:59.19boudiccasook
20:59.26keithlard_i used to make quite a tasty lager
20:59.38boudiccaswhy don't you now?
21:00.21keithlard_i could do :D
21:00.50keithlard_that would be great
21:00.59boudiccassomething useful and worthwhile to while away some of these dark autumnal evening hours :)
21:01.06keithlard_definitely
21:01.16keithlard_and you get loads of cheap booze!
21:01.26boudiccas16p a pint :)
21:01.34keithlard_can't argue with that reely!
21:53.04trousersNo offence intended to anybody - but is there any reason why there seems to be a much higher proportion of people with beards:non beards with people who use Linux rather than don't?
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22:12.31xotlanyone been watching what's happened to red hat's share price recently?
22:13.50xotldown 40% in just over a month. incredible
22:13.57Gundescrolling through the log I have a domain question... when you get a hosting package over here, doesnt it usually include a domain name and some kind of configuration so that you can create subdomains if you want to?
22:15.39xotlGunde: my hosting package has subdomains, yes
22:15.41murbGunde: how long is a bit of string.
22:16.04Gundemurb: is that a trick question?
22:16.27GundeExcept that it wasn't exactly a question...
22:17.07murbyou gets what you pay.
22:17.25murbGunde: what are you after?
22:18.47murbpersonally i like to keep my domains seperate from my hosting, so i can' be blackmailed if i want to move hosting  companies.
22:18.56GundeNothing, just trying to understand what trousers's problem is. But if I understand it correctly the point is that he wants DNS entries to point at his server at home attached to his broadband access, right?
22:19.01murbto transfer some domains.
22:19.19murbGunde: sorry, didn't read that just back from the pub :p
22:19.52murbGunde: unfortunly we already had to sue tiscali business before.
22:20.19murbnow we have two domains that htey automatically NACK, so i have to write letters to denic :(.
22:20.30GundeIf I want to change hosting provider I just do that and send the old provider a cancellation form with request to transfer them
22:20.35Gundemurb: German domains?
22:20.40murbGunde: yep
22:21.01murbthis was a reseller account so worse as we are only admin-c/tech-c/zone-c not holder.
22:21.05GundeThey send a NACK although the admin-c or owner of the domain sent a so-called KK-Antrag?
22:21.43murbwe sent a kk-antrag, and are the admin-c
22:21.43GundeTiscali refuses to deal with the admin-c then?
22:22.02murbmore they just ignore all communication including fax
22:22.19murband like clock work we get the nack after 5 days
22:22.23GundeThat is bad
22:22.32Leedsmorning all!
22:22.39GundeThey could send a late-ack after that if they wanted to.
22:22.46GundeWhat does the holder say?
22:22.51GundeHi Leeds (:
22:22.57murb'lo Leeds.
22:23.16murbGunde: the holder just cares that there is no chance the domain has any interruption of service.
22:23.37murbwhich is what we are really afraid of as well.
22:24.03Gundemurb: Send him the KK to sign, then send that to Tiscali? Anyway, via Denic should work too, but shouldnt be necessary
22:24.49Gundemurb: Does anybody of the parties involved speak German?
22:25.09murballes sprecht gut deutsch.
22:26.24Gundelol
22:26.44murbwell except me.
22:26.47GundeAt least the Denic page says the admin-c can initiate the move too.
22:27.17murbich habt gelernt bischen deutsch bie  VHS.
22:28.00Gundemurb: http://www.denic.de/de/faqs/domaininhaber/index.html#section_51
22:28.05murbund Kneipe.
22:28.08GundeBut I guess you have come that far already.
22:28.37GundeKneipe is a good way to learn the language, although possibly not the best place for proper pronunshashun
22:31.43murbich habt mer deutsch gelernt im kneiper than 8 jahr francisch im schule.
22:34.33trousersArgh!
22:34.44trousersIs it me or is that horrible German?
22:34.52Leedsmorning trousers...
22:34.59trousersEvening Leeds
22:36.13GundeIn pubs you usually dont learn proper spelling after all.
22:36.40trousersHeh
22:36.45trousersI quite like German
22:36.49trousersNot as drunk as French :P
22:37.06GundeIn what sense drunk?
22:37.13GundeI love listening to French.
22:37.33murbund mein deutsch gramatic ist Scheiss.
22:38.25murbkein hoch deutsch im oberfranken anyway.
22:38.36Leedsso, I have a thought, and I'd appreciate comments from any mail experts... I get a lot of spam bounced to me in the form of failed deliveries, because someone (or some bastards) is using random addresses from my domain as the from line on spam
22:38.58Gundehmm, disable catch-all
22:39.04GundeI had to do that last year
22:39.06murbyep don't accept everything @
22:39.08Leedsno, I like catch-all
22:39.26murbLeeds: then accept what the spambastards are doing.
22:39.34Leedsthe problem is that the bounces don't follow any format... so I've been trying to think of a way to filter bounces
22:39.39GundeMe too. I have resorted to configuring aliases though.
22:39.42murbor atleast blacklist the addresses that you can spam bounces from automatically.
22:39.55GundeLeeds: Do you run your own mail server?
22:40.00murb(lots of sites do a callout on the sender and if it fails they won't accept the mail)
22:40.01LeedsGunde: yes, of course
22:40.13Gunde(and may I reply even if I am not an expert at all?)
22:40.13murbeven yahoo who normally accept everything deny closed accounts.
22:40.30trousersGunde: French sounds too... Liquid...
22:40.55Gundetrousers: And I like people who talk a different language with a French accent.
22:41.00Leedsanyway, my theory is that the one way I can filter bounces is that any real mail has a return-path, while bounces are the only form of valid (by rfc) message which are allowed not to have one
22:41.03Gundemurb: what does callout mean?
22:41.32trousersGunde: Okay, that is okay, but the French itself isn't particularly great
22:41.45murbGunde: ehlo $MYNAME\r\nmail from:<>\r\nrcpt to:<$local_part@$domain>
22:42.04murbif they don't accept the bounce, you don't accept the mail.
22:42.09Gundetrousers: I gave up studying French at university when we came to passé simple.
22:42.25trousersGunde: I have no idea what that means as I do German :)
22:42.28Gundemurb: Ah ok.
22:42.31murbe.g: 2006-10-27 23:42:09 H=66-50-17-247.prtc.net (lfhknnc) [66.50.17.247] sender verify fail for <irwinelden@dancap.ca>: response to "RCPT TO:<irwinelden@dancap.ca>" from mx1.megamailservers.com [216.251.32.71] was: 550 5.1.1 <irwinelden@dancap.ca>... User unknown
22:42.59Leedsso, my question is, is there anything wrong with filtering mail with no return-path?  not sending it straight to the bin, at least at first, just putting it somewhere out of the way, particularly so it doesn't appear on my phone
22:43.24murbLeeds: you probably don't want bounces going to your phone no!
22:43.36murbbut you *must* accept bounces.
22:43.44murbotherwise you'll find you can't email lots of places.
22:43.54Leedssure, I accept them, but I don't want to see them in my inbox - they can go somewhere else
22:43.56murbatleast at smtp time.
22:44.09murbyep filter them wherever.
22:44.21murbmaybe just accepting those that are send to your primary email address.
22:44.28murbor addresses you send email from.
22:44.30Leedsyeah, good point
22:44.50ErwinArgh, I just got my Treo to sync via my Windows PC using Bluteooth over the network into Evolution.. now it has started to say something about "port in use"
22:44.58Leedsooh look, there's another one
22:45.09Gundetrousers: A weird form for verbs usually used in written French only.
22:50.47GundeLeeds: How come you are up so early on a Saturday?
22:51.12LeedsGunde: because back when I said "morning all!" was when I got in from a night of wine, women and song :-)
22:52.24Leedswell, vodka rather than wine, but otherwise...
22:52.48GundeSo actually you havent gone to bed yet?
22:53.09Leedsnope
22:54.11Leedsthis is a part of what I came back to Hong Kong for - it's a real party town
22:56.14GundeAnd nothing like pub closing time at 11 pm I take it.
22:56.33Leedshah!
22:57.21Leedswe left the second place at about 4:30, and a lot of other places were closed by then, but just from lack of custom... went down to Wanchai, the wilder nightlife area, where a bunch of things were still open... there are 24-hour pubs around there
22:57.52Leedsokay, good... bounces to my normal from address are getting through, bounces to other addresses should be filtered
23:03.15Leedsbugger, not working
23:04.45murbLeeds: what is public trasnport like in .hk? does it go all night?
23:04.55murbor are things walking distance</ignorant>
23:06.20Leedspublic transport is excellent, but mostly does not run at night... the trams and MTR (underground) stop overnight, although the trams, at least, were running again by the time I got home, and some of the ferries run overnight - to the otherwise inaccessible islands
23:07.10Leedslots of things are walking distance, partly depending on how you define that :-)  for example, I *have* walked the distance from where I jumped into a cab to home, but I wasn't going to do it at 6am with blisters after dancing all night
23:09.42Leedsit's maybe an hour's walk though, which may not fit many people's definition of walking distance... but that is to my new place, which is somewhat out of town - my old place was walking distance from most of town, except that it was a couple of hundred meters up the hill, so less easy a walk
23:10.24Gundegood night
23:10.28murbnn
23:10.39Leedsnight
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