[08:14] <Myrtti> personally think it's a bad idea, but they must have enough economics experts whispering in the ear to justify it
[08:14] <Myrtti> time of day everyone
[11:57] <daftykins> afty
[11:57]  * daftykins consumes coffee #1
[12:11] <zxm-pi> listening to economic experts during a pandemic... just what the doctor ordered
[12:11]  * zxm-pi heads for 2nd mug of tea
[14:13] <bigcalm> Ahoyhoy
[14:19] <zxm-pi> o/
[14:34] <daftykins> \o
[14:58] <m0nkey_> We're getting close to opening up over here. We're just a handful of cases each day in the province. Alberta removed all restrictions the other day.
[15:00] <m0nkey_> While I agree the restrictions are necessary, it's now getting to the point (at least here in Quebec) that we can start treating it more like the flu. We have a high vaccination rate and the aim is to have 75-80% of the Quebec population fully vaccinated by end of August.
[15:01] <m0nkey_> I get my second vaccine in two weeks. Hoping soon I'll be able to visit the UK in Sept/Oct time.
[15:06] <m0nkey_> Myrtti: If I do end up visiting, it'll be nice to see you & D.
[15:08] <Myrtti> September is a tough time with the weekday necessity of being home, but yes.
[15:10] <Myrtti> I've not even dreamt of seeing my family this year. it's close to three years now that we've seen
[15:33] <m0nkey_> Fingers crossed you get to see them soon.
[15:38] <bigcalm> Client's message in response to being told we don't do Friday deployments/launches: We have told clients the site will be live on Monday, so if we cant launch on Friday then I supposed it will need to be Monday morning. 
[15:39] <bigcalm> Why don't clients ask developers when they can deploy before telling the world when things will happen?
[15:46] <daftykins> launch shouldn't even mean customer facing launch, should be a 24 hour dry run :(
[15:49] <zxm-pi> when has a masive deploymen ever gone wrong? :-P
[15:52] <zxm-pi> my personal facvourite was we installed it on a friday evening ready for monday. storm that night caused building next door to collapse and drop rocks on shiny new server. that was a busy weekend :-)
[15:54] <bigcalm> Ouch
[15:56] <zxm-pi> luckily when rain soaked rocks hit the server they tripped the power which saved the server. took a microwave sized rock off the pc. used lump hammer to beat it back into shape. dusted off and used hair dryer on motherboard. plugged in. switched on. IT'S *ALIVE* \o/
[15:57] <zxm-pi> back when pcs were made with solid steel cases
[15:58] <zxm-pi> big secuity company. was cool to see all the contractors they had on retainer. electricians, glaziers, carpeting all in and out and building fixed by monday morning
[16:08] <daftykins> xD
[16:08] <daftykins> then the HDDs failed Tuesday morning...
[16:09] <bigcalm> I would have expected quite a bit of shock damage. Especially if the heads were moving at the time
[16:10] <zxm-pi> hdds.... 1 single 110mb esdi drive blessed by novell :-D
[16:10] <daftykins> me too
[16:11] <zxm-pi> drive was a full height tank that could have been used as a door stop while in use :-)
[16:12] <zxm-pi> i'm sure it was last esdi drive we ever used
[16:14] <zxm-pi> no wait, 3rd last. we got another one, filled it up in a week and then got a 330mb one for office server. that was the last
[16:28] <bigcalm> Google image search for esdi does not return the results I was expecting here
[16:32] <zxm-pi> pre www https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Small_Disk_Interface
[16:32] <zxm-pi> solid tech. just. kept. running.
[16:44] <diddledan> https://twitter.com/thenaughtysquid/status/1412450241027117058
[16:46] <daftykins> xD
[16:54] <bigcalm> Silly
[16:56] <daftykins> my pal who works for Apple in CA but is from Guernsey, his cousin is the creator of ogre3d - https://www.ogre3d.org/
[16:57] <daftykins> ah he retired
[17:39] <daftykins> interesting these web services that don't recognise £ as a "special character"
[17:43] <zxm-pi> every irish developer wants to meet the genius who decided that ' was special in sql :-D
[17:44] <daftykins> xD
[17:45] <diddledan> Sql, O'Lordy
[17:45] <zxm-pi> you do not want that many annoyed o'briens and o'neills annoyed at you
[17:46] <daftykins> just logged into my Oracle Cloud free account 'cause i feel like i should accept their default iptables config but it seemed to be a chore to let me open ports last time
[23:34] <daftykins> to bedski!
[23:37] <zxm-pi> o/