| magespawn | Hey Super fly no worries i had to go home too. | 06:59 |
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| magespawn | i have got it done by changing the folder owner ship for the copy and then changing them back again. | 06:59 |
| magespawn | ^ superfly | 07:00 |
| superfly | hey magespawn, glad you came right | 07:01 |
| Symmetria | gah my poor gf's flight outta kenya was delayed by 2 hours so she's gonna not make her connecting flight in joburg and is gonna need to get a later one and heh, she's kinda freaked out about that | 07:01 |
| Symmetria | lol, she's never had to sort out connecting flights etc in a foreign country before (normally all flights are direct and normally she's travelling with someone else) | 07:02 |
| magespawn | hey Symmetria | 07:02 |
| magespawn | learning curve then | 07:02 |
| Symmetria | lol made a plan though, got someone meeting her at the airport and phoned the airlines and gave em my platinum voyager number and told them to make a damn plan :P | 07:03 |
| Symmetria | they asured me they would lol | 07:03 |
| Symmetria | lol, one advantage of being a very frequent traveller, once you hold that platinum card, SAA starts being very careful how they treat you | 07:03 |
| magespawn | thanks superfly. the folder was owned by root for some reason. | 07:03 |
| superfly | so that the web server could write to it? | 07:04 |
| magespawn | i am not sure. i am self teaching on this one. i set up a pc with ubuntu server on it. | 07:04 |
| magespawn | i ticked all the options for server types, want to learn how to use them all. | 07:05 |
| superfly | magespawn: were you trying to run Joomla on the server? | 07:05 |
| magespawn | thats another story all together. | 07:06 |
| superfly | yeah, I recommend against Joomla, rather use Drupal | 07:06 |
| magespawn | mweb does not allow you to ftp joomla to the servers and run the install through the web. their tech help said i have to install it locally and then transfer to their server. | 07:07 |
| superfly | yeah, and Joomla is retarded about that, from what I've heard. I do that with Drupal all the time though. | 07:07 |
| magespawn | that was a consideration, did some research, opinion is that Joomla has a easier learning curve. | 07:08 |
| superfly | easier yes, but it'll bite you in the rear too | 07:08 |
| magespawn | maybe i will give it ago. do you have any running on mweb? | 07:08 |
| superfly | And Drupal's not that difficult | 07:08 |
| superfly | no, I use SubOracle's hosting | 07:08 |
| magespawn | i was going to install joomla on mweb and drupal locally to try. | 07:09 |
| superfly | mkay | 07:09 |
| magespawn | this is just really me playing/learning, no of this actually concerns any work i am doing at the moment. | 07:10 |
| magespawn | to put things in perspective i studied nature conservation, i am professional Field Guide, and now i own an internet cafe and pc shop. | 07:19 |
| Symmetria | heh, its strange how our careers mutate | 07:20 |
| magespawn | ppl are always asking about websites and if i can do them. so i thought i would learn. | 07:20 |
| magespawn | yup | 07:20 |
| Symmetria | look at the number of electrical engineers who are now working in networking and IT for example | 07:20 |
| Symmetria | heh, for myself, I've been working part time in IT since I was 12, and full time since I was 16, but only in the last 9 years or so have I been completely focused on networking (after doing programming, security, software consultancy and unix administration in the beginning at various times) | 07:21 |
| Symmetria | heh, in 1996 odd I was doing installation and maintenance of AIX systems and specialix systems connected to those | 07:22 |
| Symmetria | I think if you put me down infront of an AIX box today I wouldnt have a clue :P | 07:22 |
| Symmetria | (AIX = strange beast, though WAY ahead of its time back then) | 07:23 |
| Symmetria | heh, aix's file system in the 1990s had features that other *nix systems didnt get for *YEARS* afterwards (like live space allocation/deallocation to a file system from newly inserted hot swap drives) | 07:24 |
| * Symmetria also remebers running linux kernel 0.99 :P | 07:25 | |
| Symmetria | and fbsd 2 or something lol, which had to be installed off 1.44meg disks | 07:25 |
| magespawn | mm. i have also just done the physical set up of a dvr security system | 07:25 |
| magespawn | okay now that is going to far back for me | 07:26 |
| Symmetria | strangely, I almost ended up at one point leaving IT all together | 07:26 |
| Symmetria | I gave seriously consideration to going back and doing a degree in my second passion, clinic psych | 07:26 |
| magespawn | but i do remember booting a pc of 5 1/2 inch disks with no hard drive. | 07:26 |
| Symmetria | heh, and I found an interesting article that refers to a discussion I had with someone in the 90s about leaving IT | 07:27 |
| Symmetria | http://gopherproxy.org/gopher.meulie.net/00/textfiles/programming/cyberpunk.txt | 07:27 |
| magespawn | nah you cannot talk to yourself if you do that, everybody expects it ppl to talk to themselves | 07:27 |
| Symmetria | heh, that was written by wyze1 in 1999 | 07:28 |
| Symmetria | LOL, I didnt even know he had written it until a few weeks ago, but I clearly remeber that night and that discussion, lol, and remeber passing out on the office floor cause of pure exhaustion | 07:28 |
| magespawn | running under a different name then to | 07:31 |
| magespawn | too | 07:31 |
| Symmetria | heh, for good reason | 07:34 |
| magespawn | just read the article, my thoughts, ppl will quite often mistrust things they do not understand. | 07:34 |
| Symmetria | :P Vortexia was... an interesting persona :) fairly carefully crafted and served a specific purpose *shrug* it was time to put that persona to bed :) | 07:35 |
| magespawn | one of those things. i have been using the same nick since i first started using irc in '94, somewhere there. | 07:36 |
| magespawn | howdy all | 20:54 |
| magespawn | if I had know it was this late i would have gone straight to bed | 20:57 |
| magespawn | night all | 20:57 |
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