| BluesKaj | Hey all | 12:19 |
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| bregma | hey ho, perfect weather today | 13:44 |
| * genii-around makes an industrial urn of life-sustaining coffee! | 14:11 | |
| BluesKaj | hey genii-around ..java hound :) | 14:14 |
| genii-around | Hehe, yes | 14:14 |
| BluesKaj | I have a bone to pick with the Ubuntu chat family value policy | 14:17 |
| BluesKaj | trhere's some idiotic nicks allowed here thast don't make sense in a so called family chat.. few curse words are tolerable here but any kind of nick is tolerated ? Where's the sense of family values in the policy here ? Makes no sense to me . | 14:18 |
| genii-around | BluesKaj: Yesterday in #k there was a fellow with nick of rekcuFniarB .. I was meaning to PM him about it but then real world work got busy and I couldn't log in to the bantracker right away, etc | 14:20 |
| BluesKaj | if you are gonna call a chat family friendly then "Ieatchildren" is ok as a nick | 14:20 |
| BluesKaj | ? | 14:20 |
| BluesKaj | sorry I don't understand that such nick is ok, but a few curse words that kids hear on the school yrd 50 times a day are banned | 14:22 |
| BluesKaj | I think this "family values" policy is ass backwards | 14:24 |
| genii-around | It's one of those policies which is subjective, and enforcing is up to whichever ops are in the channel and their interpretation. I generally don't bother unless I get a complaint or if their nick is outright nasty usually | 14:27 |
| BluesKaj | one guy actually complimented the guy on his 'cool nick' ..if the policy is to protect from curse words etc , whydoesn't evil. pedophelia, and murderous dsounding nicks apply as well...or does that not fall in realm of political correctness here ? | 14:30 |
| IdleOne | BluesKaj: you know you can call !ops or join the op channel and let them know about a disturbing/inappropriate nick | 14:31 |
| BluesKaj | IdleOne, I tried to the first time this character showed up, and i got dumped on for objecting to a nick.."it's just nick,,he doesn't mean anything by it ", was the response. so what was I supposed to do ? | 14:33 |
| BluesKaj | but oh my goodness if somebody curses in the chat it's practically a hanging offense :) | 14:34 |
| IdleOne | BluesKaj: like genii-around said it is subjective and up to the op but in #ubuntu if we get a complaint from a user and it is justifiable we will normally ask them to change nick. | 14:34 |
| BluesKaj | ok , then the next time , I'll object | 14:34 |
| IdleOne | I agree that a nick like Ieatchildren is not family friendly | 14:35 |
| BluesKaj | I just hiope the response isn't like the one previous | 14:35 |
| BluesKaj | IdleOne, it's particularly offensive to us grandfathers | 14:36 |
| IdleOne | I'll tell you one thing though, you will get a much better response from the ops if you ask nice and explain your reasoning before going off on a 4 paragraph rant :) | 14:36 |
| BluesKaj | IdleOne, sometimes a rant is needed to get their attention | 14:36 |
| IdleOne | rants get attention I agree but it probably won't be the type you expect | 14:37 |
| BluesKaj | you guys certainly came after me for joking in the chat | 14:37 |
| IdleOne | BluesKaj: and eyt you still keep doing it :) | 14:37 |
| IdleOne | yet* | 14:37 |
| BluesKaj | whynot it's not offensive like somethings are ... alittle levity never hurt anyone , when the chat's not busy | 14:38 |
| IdleOne | simple, a little off topic WILL turn into a lot of off topic real quick. | 14:39 |
| IdleOne | in here we can go off topic more often because it really is not busy | 14:39 |
| BluesKaj | uhm .... | 14:39 |
| IdleOne | but a channel like #ubuntu with 1400+ users and 40 to 50 people talking at any one time would turn to chaos fast | 14:40 |
| BluesKaj | I quote " a little levity never hurt anyone , when the chat's not busy" :) | 14:40 |
| IdleOne | the off topic rule isn't about telling people what they can or can't say, it's about allowing people the chance to get the help they need without distractions | 14:41 |
| IdleOne | BluesKaj: who decides what not busy is? | 14:41 |
| IdleOne | my understanding is the ops decide | 14:42 |
| IdleOne | and we decided that #ubuntu is always busy | 14:42 |
| IdleOne | so no off topic :) | 14:42 |
| * genii-around pops in for a sip of coffee then sneaks back to work | 14:43 | |
| IdleOne | genii-around: don't work too hard the boss will expect it all the time | 14:43 |
| genii-around | IdleOne: I was on vacation for a week, they saved it up for me | 14:48 |
| IdleOne | really not a vacation if when you come back you have double the work | 14:49 |
| genii-around | Yup :( But at least I got to go fishing | 14:50 |
| BluesKaj | I used to dread coming back from vacation or winter holidays because the workload was always double on the first week back. | 14:51 |
| willwh | hi guys - anyone got experience with awstats? | 16:14 |
| willwh | I have a bit of a funky log format that I can't get to go :( | 16:14 |
| txwikinger | Anybody felt the earthquake? I did not! | 19:13 |
| johanbr | nothing in Montreal either | 19:15 |
| genii-around | txwikinger: The people here did | 19:15 |
| genii-around | I felt a small rumble under the floor here. The guys on the top floor ( 5th ) felt it way more, they went online right away and tried to find out what it was. | 19:16 |
| BluesKaj | not in Norh Ont | 19:17 |
| BluesKaj | snami on lake Erie ! | 19:18 |
| txwikinger | Interesting.. felt in Montreal but not in SW Ontario | 19:21 |
| BluesKaj | Indiana felt it ....strange | 19:21 |
| txwikinger | Ohio felt it too | 19:22 |
| txwikinger | Make Lake Erie somehow dampened it | 19:22 |
| txwikinger | s/Make/Maybe/ | 19:22 |
| BluesKaj | lake erie is really shallow , not much water there | 19:23 |
| johanbr | genii-around, you're in Montreal? | 19:24 |
| johanbr | I didn't feel anything here at Concordia | 19:24 |
| BluesKaj | genii's inToronto | 19:25 |
| johanbr | ahh... | 19:25 |
| txwikinger | Ah I meant Toronto | 19:25 |
| johanbr | ahh, alright :) | 19:25 |
| genii-around | johanbr: I'm in downtown Toronto | 19:26 |
| johanbr | I heard epicentre was somewhere in Virginia... I guess Toronto is a little closer | 19:27 |
| txwikinger | Too much news going on at the same time | 19:27 |
| genii-around | I heard they evacuated the Pentagon | 19:28 |
| txwikinger | Pentagon should be built to withstand an earthquake.. really ood | 19:28 |
| txwikinger | odd | 19:28 |
| genii-around | http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20096161-503544.html | 19:29 |
| johanbr | even if the building can take it, the average office may not be safe | 19:30 |
| johanbr | falling shelves etc... | 19:30 |
| txwikinger | Well.. ideally the building is absorbing the shocks | 19:30 |
| genii-around | The one we felt here before a few years ago swung the CN Tower back and forth about 15-20 feet at the revolving restaurant level | 19:31 |
| txwikinger | was that the one near Ottawa? | 19:32 |
| * txwikinger remembers feeling that in the building, but 2 meters away it could not be felt | 19:33 | |
| johanbr | yikes | 19:33 |
| genii-around | txwikinger: Not the 2010 one just before G20, the one before that | 19:34 |
| txwikinger | Goderich had a pretty strong tornado on the weekend | 19:34 |
| txwikinger | genii-around: I peobably had not been here yet for the one before that | 19:34 |
| Seven_Six_Two | I saw a pic yesterday in the london paper about the twister. | 19:36 |
| genii-around | I found the one that rocked the tower, was March 12 2007 | 19:38 |
| genii-around | It was still like 3.7-3.8 when it went through here, epicenter was in Ohio | 19:40 |
| txwikinger | Yeah. that was before my time here | 19:40 |
| genii-around | I remember it vividly because I was in the old elevator here with scissor gates, the gates started smacking back and forth. I thought the Rogers Wireless workers installing aerials on the roof had one topple over onto the elevator machine room. | 19:46 |
| cyphermox | dscassel: ping? | 20:26 |
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