| penguin42 | hmm, my apache segfaulted a few times during a security upgrade; fine before and seems fine after - I guess something screwy in the way the upgrade was done | 00:02 |
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| zmoylan-pi | glitches during security updates poke your paranoia a smidge | 01:36 |
| penguin42 | yeh | 01:38 |
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| zmoylan-pi | and leave a lingering doubt that never quite fades | 01:41 |
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| mapp | hi;] | 06:01 |
| zmoylan-pi | o/ | 06:13 |
| mapp | sleepy time for me | 06:52 |
| mapp | ;D | 06:52 |
| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 10:40 |
| SuperEngineer | "Use of this channel implies acceptance of the terms at..." [still can't see which are the term times & which are the school holiday times] | 11:59 |
| * zmoylan-pi breaks out the pea shooter and pelts SuperEngineer to make it clear | 12:07 | |
| SuperEngineer | :) | 12:08 |
| * SuperEngineer throws stale buns at zmoylan-pi - bun fight stylie | 12:12 | |
| * zmoylan-pi knots together rubber bands to make a finger catapult and folds paper to make ammunition... | 12:12 | |
| * SuperEngineer chews paper, gets straws... aims | 12:13 | |
| * zmoylan-pi puts a dozen thumbtacks in sheet of paper and slides it under SuperEngineer when they sit down | 12:14 | |
| * SuperEngineer saws through 3 out of 4 zmoylan-pi chair legs | 12:15 | |
| * zmoylan-pi opens cartridge pen and pours ink in pool on SuperEngineer's seat to earn them the name smurfbottom for rest of term after next p.e. class | 12:17 | |
| * SuperEngineer connects zmoylan-pi's bunsen burner's gas pipe to mains water feed! | 12:18 | |
| SuperEngineer | [...& yes - I actually *did* swap the whole phsics labs pipes once! | 12:19 |
| * zmoylan-pi sets up SuperEngineer's bunsen burner to cook toast and notifies teacher... | 12:20 | |
| * SuperEngineer sulks - darn teachers' pets! | 12:21 | |
| * zmoylan-pi nibbles on toast i made earlier... | 12:21 | |
| zmoylan-pi | we got kicked out of the lab for making toast on bunsen burners. some health and safety violation i think | 12:22 |
| zmoylan-pi | this was after we were kicked out of the lab for using foot long mercury thermometers as light sabres | 12:24 |
| SuperEngineer | when I "re-routed the gas/water pipes the physics master had to leave the room [laughing] - he had previously told me he had done this himself... did we laugh! [my punishment - to reconnect the pipes the correct way round befoire anybody worked out what had happened!] | 12:24 |
| zmoylan-pi | science was much more fun before health and safety got involved... :-D | 12:25 |
| SuperEngineer | nmmm.. mercury; ever made a mercury motor? | 12:25 |
| zmoylan-pi | no | 12:26 |
| SuperEngineer | ever then stepped up the voltage to 480???? ever since a room evacuated at double speed? | 12:26 |
| zmoylan-pi | they wouldn't let us do experiments with electricity. i think they knew us too well | 12:26 |
| SuperEngineer | [and you see all this stuff on tv trying to convince kids that science is fun... dunno what they mean!] | 12:27 |
| zmoylan-pi | we studied a lot of gravity by throwing people off fire escape. i wonder now how we managed to not injure anyone to require a plaster cast | 12:28 |
| SuperEngineer | oooh - now that's one I did miss out on | 12:29 |
| zmoylan-pi | i highly recommend people *don't* try this one at home. these days it'll all end in lawyers :-( | 12:29 |
| * SuperEngineer starts writing letter: "Dear old school, any chance I could come back for a few days... | 12:29 | |
| penguin42 | were the people being thrown off willin subjects? | 12:30 |
| penguin42 | g | 12:30 |
| SuperEngineer | I missed out on an "experiment" ;) | 12:30 |
| zmoylan-pi | if they were willing it would go against the spirtit of the game of course | 12:30 |
| zmoylan-pi | there had to be a risk of been thrown off while trying to throw someone else off to make it a sport | 12:30 |
| SuperEngineer | iof they were willing... it just means they were budding parachutists! - though they were probably also forgetful, no parachute! | 12:31 |
| SuperEngineer | zmoylan-pi, you *do* realise that we are now both being marked out as a couple of evil idiots, don't you? | 12:33 |
| zmoylan-pi | *or* evil geniuses! ;-) | 12:33 |
| SuperEngineer | confession... idiot yes, evil no! genius: definitely! | 12:34 |
| zmoylan-pi | i went to a notorious school. | 12:34 |
| SuperEngineer | what's a notorious school... is it where you go if are already notorious or where you go to learn how? | 12:35 |
| zmoylan-pi | when we were in a league with other schools for various sports they had to double the number of ambulances when we played | 12:35 |
| SuperEngineer | you shouldn't play against ambulances... they are big and rather hard when yoiu knock into them! | 12:35 |
| zmoylan-pi | on my last day of school as i left for the last time i was oddly proud to watch gardai walk in to arrest a first year for breaking jcb window | 12:36 |
| * SuperEngineer renames channel ubuntu-school-confeessions ! | 12:37 | |
| zmoylan-pi | the driver in it at the time was upset for some reason... | 12:37 |
| SuperEngineer | lol | 12:37 |
| SuperEngineer | on my last day at day at school I found out the head master had a particular dislike of people ploughing a cricket pitch roller right through the 6th form hut! | 12:38 |
| penguin42 | who would have guessed | 12:38 |
| SuperEngineer | :) | 12:39 |
| zmoylan-pi | we got a lot of detention after a letter for precare instructions for a vascetomy was put on notice board with principals name. totally worth it... | 12:40 |
| SuperEngineer | zm | 12:40 |
| SuperEngineer | whoops! | 12:41 |
| zmoylan-pi | pretty difficult in mid 80s without a printer and nicely photocopied on header from real clinic | 12:41 |
| SuperEngineer | zmoylan-pi, I would mention my piece de resistance, but this is a family channel [suffice to say it may just possibly have me, my motor bike, the head master's gown, a set of false over-bite teeth, a perfect impersonation, a 6th form concert which all teachers rolling on floor laughing & a slight request from head master to visit his office immediately after} | 12:44 |
| zmoylan-pi | ours was putting a nail in teachers stool. it was very carefully thought out. shortest teacher and tallest stool. no way they could accidently sit on it. held in with sellotape so if in 1 in million chance they did it would fall out | 12:48 |
| zmoylan-pi | the teach took his stool out from under desk and just looked at 8" nail sticking out of it for about 2-3 minutes... | 12:48 |
| zmoylan-pi | then looked at us and said in a way that made him very cool. 'i'm not sure which is worse, that you put this in my stool or thought i would be stupid enough to sit on it' :-P | 12:49 |
| SuperEngineer | The most amazing, gratifying and proof-my-time-was-well-spentest thing... | 12:49 |
| SuperEngineer | ...all that - and I was still welcomed back to do a photo-shot for them, then a light show for the school band, then a reunion - & only one dissenter amongst all the staff - bet you can't guess who rthat was ;) | 12:50 |
| SuperEngineer | hashtag end-of-confession | 12:50 |
| SuperEngineer | p.s. an 8" nail??? doesn't that border on overkill [literally] | 12:52 |
| penguin42 | wth do you even get an 8" nail | 12:52 |
| zmoylan-pi | it had to be so big there was no chance they could sit on it combined with leaving the thought in the teachers head the little sods want me dead... | 12:53 |
| * zmoylan-pi whistles nonchantly | 12:53 | |
| * SuperEngineer phones police [twice: once for you, once for me] ;) | 12:57 | |
| zmoylan-pi | we did a bad thing? | 12:57 |
| SuperEngineer | ermmmm... yup | 12:58 |
| zmoylan-pi | i should have gotten permission before i nicked the nail? | 12:58 |
| SuperEngineer | yeah, that! | 12:58 |
| * zmoylan-pi decides to not reveal any of the bad things we did so | 12:59 | |
| SuperEngineer | [but the things I did were never bad, honest guv! - in fact they were superb] | 13:01 |
| zmoylan-pi | our rule was no one should be physically hurt (ie. requiring hospital) after that it was fair game | 13:02 |
| foobarry | uihuhui | 13:08 |
| foobarry | woops | 13:09 |
| foobarry | my hp microserver seems to fail to boot a lot | 13:11 |
| foobarry | ureadahead failed with status 5 | 13:12 |
| foobarry | then shows disks gettingmounted | 13:12 |
| foobarry | then nothing | 13:12 |
| zmoylan-pi | try booting off usb drive to see if it's just the boot drive? | 13:15 |
| foobarry | sometimes it works | 13:17 |
| zmoylan-pi | but if you try it with usb drive does it always work? | 13:17 |
| foobarry | i would expect so | 13:17 |
| zmoylan-pi | ie. is the current drive on last spindle | 13:17 |
| popey | morning | 13:17 |
| foobarry | its a raid setup | 13:17 |
| popey | oh, afternoon | 13:17 |
| zmoylan-pi | ah yes you said. sorry, coffee still below optimal | 13:18 |
| foobarry | o/ | 13:18 |
| foobarry | hmm booted now. gonna run dist-upgrade | 13:22 |
| bigcalm | Good morning peeps :) | 14:10 |
| popey | yo | 14:17 |
| nigelb | evenin' | 14:20 |
| bigcalm | k[-p**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** | 14:24 |
| popey | hello cat | 14:24 |
| penguin42 | hehe | 14:24 |
| bigcalm | I really wish it were | 14:25 |
| bigcalm | Just me dismantling some hardware with cables flopping about | 14:25 |
| bigcalm | Wife and I have just had ice-creams from an ice-cream van. Oh to live in suburbia in the spring time | 14:55 |
| * penguin42 is currently considering buying an icecream machine; I've been considering it for a while and It's getting more tempting by the day | 14:56 | |
| zmoylan-pi | summer is coming... | 14:58 |
| zmoylan-pi | or what passes for summer in these parts :-) | 14:58 |
| penguin42 | nod | 15:00 |
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| bigcalm | Fixed my glasses with blutac. Not sure how I really feel about this as I know it's not a long term fix | 15:14 |
| penguin42 | is that as long term in minutes hours or days or just an inconvenient time when they mustnt fail? | 15:15 |
| bigcalm | I'm missing a screw from one of the nose pads. So it'll if I don't take these glasses out of this office. I think | 15:16 |
| penguin42 | oh, not as bad as losing a screw out of the arm/bit that holds the lens | 15:17 |
| bigcalm | Yeah | 15:17 |
| popey | anyone with good eyes about? | 15:21 |
| popey | http://imgur.com/0JxQihw,0tliuXs,lb8Jts6 | 15:21 |
| popey | two of those LEDs are apparently wide angle | 15:21 |
| popey | two are narrow | 15:21 |
| popey | the wide angle ones are lighter blue, the others are grey, but I can't tell the difference | 15:22 |
| bigcalm | popey: quickest way to find out is to stick them in some breadboard with a resistor and a batter | 15:22 |
| bigcalm | y | 15:22 |
| popey | thats a way better idea | 15:22 |
| * popey wanders off again | 15:24 | |
| foobarry | put them under UVlight? | 15:26 |
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| MrI | i have screen artifacts | 16:07 |
| ali1234 | today i've been experimenting with laser transfer PCBs | 22:42 |
| ali1234 | inkjet paper sucks, press n peel sucks | 22:43 |
| ali1234 | but i had good results with PVA film | 22:43 |
| ali1234 | only probably is it deforms in the printer cos it has a melting point 230 C and a laser printer is like 210 C | 22:43 |
| ali1234 | it gave by far the best results though, and in the shortest amount of time | 22:44 |
| zmoylan-pi | a zx thermal printer! \o/ :-) | 23:02 |
| shauno | I just order boards from china. kinda blows for turnaround time, but they've been spot on so far | 23:05 |
| ali1234 | who did you use? | 23:08 |
| shauno | seeed's one .. the name escapes me right now | 23:09 |
| ali1234 | seeed have good prices but then it's like $50 for delivery | 23:09 |
| shauno | yeah, you have to be able to bundle a few for it to pay off | 23:10 |
| shauno | but I still haven't paid for Eagle, so I tend to end up stacking a few boards because the free version won't let me make them bigger | 23:10 |
| shauno | probably false economy, but it works for me. and localizes screwups to a single board | 23:11 |
| shauno | I've been slowly building up a radio, but constantly discovering that I know jack squat. so keeping it this modular has made it much easier to try different things | 23:14 |
| shauno | mostly though, I'm just lazy. we used UV masks at school. freaking messy. china makes it as easy as ordering pizza | 23:20 |
| * m0nkey_ is not a happy bunny | 23:38 | |
| m0nkey_ | that's the third time Xorg has hung on me | 23:39 |
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