[00:10] EVening [01:13] it is indeed evening [01:13] party [01:14] chc party [01:14] jcastro: relevant to your interests: I had tacos at Azteca tonight [13:21] Good morning [13:28] morn [13:31] <_stink_> yo [15:45] *Sigh* [15:46] somebody have a case of the Thursdays? [15:46] Having a case of "what I thought was a good launch wasn't" [15:47] oh? [15:48] Yeah, long story [15:48] suffice to say what we thought we didn't need we needed [15:49] happens [15:54] Yeah [15:56] I recently have assumed command of the university's mirror FTP/HTTP server. [15:56] * ColonelPanic001 mirrors bookie [15:57] my favorite bad launch of my career was the backup infrastructure I built for a large auto in Auburn Hills... my employer wouldn't let me get powerful enough hardware, I had to use surplus stuff... so, we built a backup env that couldn't keep up. [15:57] <_stink_> the guy who had it before you was a terrible person ColonelPanic001 [15:57] totally not my fault, nearly quit over it. [15:57] ColonelPanic001: That's awesome. :) [15:57] _stink_: DId you manage the mirrors? [15:57] yeah [15:57] I drew the short straw [15:57] now it's mine [15:57] <_stink_> *gasp* how could you think such a thing [15:57] _stink_: You're self-effacing. [15:58] ;) [15:58] he can self-face because he has a mirror [15:58] heh [15:58] God, that mirror infrastructure has to be a rickety mess. [15:58] <_stink_> i miss giving the 'FTP team' reports every month [15:58] _stink_: "Still a rickety mess" [15:59] "no funding, but thanks for the bandwidth" [15:59] Does WSU still have a Usenet mirror? [15:59] no :\ [15:59] and MERIT dial-up? :) [16:00] hahaha @ usenet mirror [16:00] we have a pretty speedy connection [16:00] <_stink_> no but we have a guy who will tell you ALL ABOUT the dial up pool [16:00] no one gets usenet feeds anymore except usenet providers. [16:00] <_stink_> while peeing next to you at a urinal [16:00] _stink_: I'll begt [16:00] bet [16:00] lulz [16:00] MERIT [16:00] I used to abuse that shit [16:00] who didn't? [16:00] When they rerquired a login is when I had to get a ISP [16:01] they used to not require login? [16:01] _stink_: Is that where his office is? [16:01] like you'd just dial a line and be on? [16:01] <_stink_> haha [16:01] <_stink_> may as well be [16:01] yea, I had a login [16:01] jrwren: I thought they didn't have a login for a bit [16:01] I don't remember if I had my own or stole someone else's [16:01] i've no idea. [16:01] Maybe I'm thinking of something else [16:01] MichNet? [16:01] dunno [16:01] michnet was part of merit [16:01] ^^ [16:02] All I remember is using it for a bit before having to get an ISP account [16:02] Maybe I had an account. [16:02] memory foggy [16:03] you probably did from OU [16:03] they probably locked the account you were (ab)using [16:03] weren't you an enrolled student for a while? [16:03] I worked at WSU [16:03] I wasn't a student at OSU [16:03] was a student at Hope [16:03] not a state school. [16:03] Yeah, all private. [16:03] was hope a merit member? [16:03] Nope [16:03] i didn't think so. [16:04] I almost went to OU [16:04] cscheib: Then you looked at the curriculum? :) [16:04] well, they were offering me a lot of money [16:04] more than Kettering was [16:04] And realized their engineering dept was junk. [16:05] <_stink_> cmaloney: my sister in law was at hope for 3 years... maybe around '93-'96? [16:05] <_stink_> not sure if that overlaps you [16:05] _stink_: I graduated in '93 [16:05] is CompEng out of the eng dept or compsci dept? [16:05] I ruined it for her I'm sure. [16:05] <_stink_> ah ok [16:05] <_stink_> haha [16:05] I was in 3rd grade in 93 [16:05] cscheib: Not sure [16:06] but they had an awesome instructor there who taught assembly [16:06] JoDee really liked him [16:06] Shit,b lanking on the name [16:07] There's a language that has his name, but I'm not sure that's related. [16:07] oddly enough, I probably would never have met jrwren or jcastro had I gone to OU [16:07] you are too young. [16:08] jrwren: you were working there when I still would have been in college. [16:08] comp eng IS a dept. Its the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering [16:08] Apparently Comp Sci is under the Engineering dept. [16:08] http://wwwp.oakland.edu/secs/directory/#tab-2 [16:09] and OU wasn't-isn't completely terrible - its largely what you make of it. [16:09] holy crap Jerry got old [16:09] Well, JoDee got into a degree program that didn't translate into anything automotive [16:10] and her later attempts showed a department that didn't have their shit together. [16:10] jrwren: Hate to break it to you but we all got old . :) [16:10] CS at OU? [16:11] Physics Engineering [16:11] Engineering Physics [16:11] rather [16:11] i never understood that field. [16:11] Physics? [16:11] you use physics in engineering. wtf is physics engineering? [16:12] Exactly. [16:12] I minored in physics and read QED for fun. I get physics. [16:12] I assumed you'd be the guy making stargates and stuff [16:12] i don't grok "engineering physics" [16:12] you need to know physics and engineering for that [16:12] <_stink_> fancy name for 'applied physics' [16:12] jrwren: Well, they got rid of the degree [16:12] cmaloney: go figure! [16:12] It was basically engineering for folks who didn't give a shit about cars or medicine. [16:12] aka JoDee. [16:13] <_stink_> like most degrees with 'physics' in the name, HR departments don't know what the fuck someone holding it might know [16:13] <_stink_> so they can't get jobs [16:13] <_stink_> that they would be good at. [16:13] Unfortuantely [16:13] <_stink_> not that i'm bitter. :) [16:13] physics - people who think better than others. :p [16:13] And Physics is an awesome career-starter if you're a) planning on not being in Michigan, and b) are freshly coming off of the excitement from the Apollo Space missions [16:14] <_stink_> due to self flaggelation. [16:14] Imagine the person flagellating themselves is a sphere. [16:14] <_stink_> zero wind resistance. [16:14] ++ [16:14] brb [16:14] <_stink_> cmaloney: you don't feel the space race buzz in the air still? [16:33] _stink_: Yeah, that's what penny for NASA is all about: we shouldn't be spending whole dollars on the program [18:44] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+mirror/ftp.wayne.edu-release [18:44] here is my contribution to the ubuntu [19:03] ya'll run a mirror? [19:03] wow! 12.10! [19:03] I think that's why it's pending review [19:04] Very nice. [19:04] is it intentionally a PPC only mirror? [19:04] and an iso only mirror? [19:04] oh nevermind, there is some amd64 [20:08] yeah, the ubuntu mirror has been around for years here [20:08] I guess no one bothered to try and get it listed [20:31] i think tehy were listed and it would get overloaded and so it was removed from listing [20:31] or had a prohibitively small concurrent connection limit, again leading to its delisting