| snail | http://ubuntu-nz.org/ doesn't seem like the most useful url to have in the title | 02:28 |
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| chilts | snail: slow day? | 02:28 |
| ajmitch | oh fun | 02:28 |
| * ajmitch should find out how to fix that | 02:28 | |
| snail | something like that | 02:28 |
| chilts | :) | 02:29 |
| ojwb | it seems to pretty well summarise us I think | 02:29 |
| snail | apparently we have a contract linux admin starting up here shortly anyone know who it is? | 02:30 |
| ajmitch | 'here' being? | 02:30 |
| ibeardslee | I thought that had already been linked to the wiki page | 02:30 |
| ajmitch | ibeardslee: used to be | 02:30 |
| * ojwb wonders why it seemed a good idea to rename the text boot config on the CD from text.cfg to txt.cfg between lucid and natty | 02:30 | |
| ojwb | I guess that extra character can be put to better use somewhere | 02:31 |
| ibeardslee | txt spek? | 02:31 |
| ajmitch | following the fine traditions of UNIX? | 02:31 |
| ojwb | ajmitch: randomly renaming stuff? | 02:31 |
| snail | ajmitch: 'here' being Victoria University of Wellington | 02:32 |
| ajmitch | ojwb: a strong aversion to vowels | 02:32 |
| snail | for april 1 we should do a distro where all executable files' names are mime-style base64 encoded | 02:34 |
| snail | or would anyone notice? | 02:35 |
| chilts | heh | 02:35 |
| ojwb | ajmitch: I'm reminded of that Ken Thompson quote: http://books.google.com/books?id=poFQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22spell+creat+with+an+e%22&dq=%22spell+creat+with+an+e%22 | 02:37 |
| chilts | snail: one time in Catalyst people changed their nicks to be the first 8 chars of their GPG key ... it was quite painful trying to figure out who was who | 02:37 |
| chilts | snail: http://she.geek.nz/archives/394-more-crazy-times-in-catalyst.html | 02:37 |
| ajmitch | who doesn't know their GPG ID? | 02:40 |
| ojwb | 3bad2b07 | 02:40 |
| chilts | 3bad!!! | 02:44 |
| chilts | hmm, I need to copy it from my old computer to this one | 02:44 |
| ibeardslee | I have my business card taped to my monitor | 02:46 |
| chilts | because you can't remember your name or who you work for? | 02:46 |
| ibeardslee | .. .. .. .. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 .. 2 1 0 .. for my gpg id | 02:48 |
| ajmitch | you only need to know the last 8 characters | 02:49 |
| ibeardslee | maybe I should use it as my password for a while .. help me remember | 02:52 |
| ajmitch | a rather public password | 02:54 |
| ibeardslee | only if you know it is being used as a password | 02:55 |
| ibeardslee | err | 02:55 |
| ajmitch | noone would ever know... | 02:56 |
| ibeardslee | well .. hopefully I would | 02:58 |
| ojwb | just make sure not to mention the idea in a public forum | 03:00 |
| ojwb | especially not one which is logged | 03:00 |
| ibeardslee | should be all good if I delete my logs right? | 03:01 |
| ojwb | hmm, I think our fuse box just went clunk and is now buzzing | 03:02 |
| ojwb | probably an enormous bee flew into it | 03:02 |
| chilts | heh, this conversation is too much | 03:10 |
| chilts | best fun I've had on a Thursday afternoon ... since like 4 EVA | 03:10 |
| chilts | :) | 03:10 |
| ajmitch | that's a bit of a worry | 03:10 |
| ojwb | i phoned the electricity company but I'm not the account holder | 03:13 |
| * ojwb sighs | 03:13 | |
| chilts | that sucks | 03:15 |
| ojwb | yeah, though I understand | 03:16 |
| ojwb | at least fault reports skip the hold queue | 03:16 |
| ojwb | jenny's rung and they'll send someone round in 4-6 hours | 03:17 |
| ojwb | so I guess that's decided about python UG for me | 03:17 |
| snail | there was a powercut in wellington a few weeks ago that effected the uni. a unit had a shiny new building with a shiny new generator to keep the wheels rolling if the power should go off. the generator supplied ~500 volts for the first 5 seconds. some of the gear didn't like that. | 03:25 |
| snail | on the plus side, they're all getting shiny new computers now... | 03:26 |
| chilts | ;D | 03:26 |
| ibeardslee | heh | 03:26 |
| ibeardslee | no UPS? | 03:31 |
| ojwb | which reminds me, are power spikes, etc a big problem in NZ? | 03:31 |
| ojwb | i've notice in the electrical retailers they push surge filters quite hard | 03:32 |
| ojwb | but I've also noticed the prices they charge for them are silly, so I wonder if that's just because they can make more on those than on the actual equipment | 03:33 |
| ibeardslee | they do that because they can also sell extended warranties that are only valid if they have a surge protector | 03:34 |
| ajmitch | I think the power grid is fairly stable, but I've only lived down south, not in those dodgy areas like wellington | 03:35 |
| snail | I've twice lost equipment to lightning strikes in wellington residential/domestic buildings; in both cases the strikes were within 100 m of the equipment | 03:38 |
| * ojwb makes a note not to move near snail | 03:39 | |
| snail | In hamilton I had a run of powercuts caused by boy-racers hitting power poles / transformers, but none of those fried hardware | 03:39 |
| snail | heh | 03:40 |
| * ibeardslee is more than 100m away | 03:41 | |
| snail | Does someone have recommendations of surge filters ? | 03:49 |
| ojwb | snail: there's probably a poster of you up in every store with "do not sell surge filters to this man" underneath | 03:50 |
| snail | ojwb: i can think of worse things to be written under my photo. | 03:58 |
| chilts | Wanted! | 04:00 |
| chilts | for one | 04:00 |
| ibeardslee | better than "Not Wanted" | 04:04 |
| snail | "wanted dead or alive" with the second half scratched out | 04:07 |
| ibeardslee | morning | 19:33 |
| ibeardslee | right xfce it is then | 19:45 |
| ajmitch | morning | 20:11 |
| Atamira | morning | 20:18 |
| hads | Mornin | 21:02 |
| chilts | morning | 21:28 |
| ibeardslee | http://digitizor.com/2011/08/04/linus-torvalds-ditches-gnome-for-xfce/ | 21:45 |
| ibeardslee | love the comment about not using unity | 21:46 |
| ibeardslee | in the comments, not the article | 21:46 |
| chilts | not surprising really .. he should just switch to XMonad :) | 21:47 |
| snail | he's a long way from the target audience of gnome, and getting further away by the day | 22:16 |
| ojwb | morning | 22:19 |
| ajmitch | at least it's a friday morning | 22:19 |
| thumper | morning | 23:09 |
| ojwb | oh, very funny natty | 23:53 |
| ojwb | apt-get remove 'gnome-.*' | 23:53 |
| ojwb | and it tries to install kde | 23:53 |
| ibeardslee | ojwb: is that to get a xfce desktop or somesuch? | 23:59 |
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