Tue Aug 11 11:59:24 2009
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Aidil@Way of the Force: btw, most drives that failed on me just made a rather loud clicking or scraping sound, after which they'd never spinup again.
Tue Aug 11 12:00:30 2009
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Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: those of mine that died got old-fashioned physical bad sectors. Platter decay.
Tue Aug 11 12:01:05 2009
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Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: I seem to hear that motor and heads breakage is more popular nowadays... cutting production costs, *sigh*.
Tue Aug 11 12:01:26 2009
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Aidil@Way of the Force: usually, when reviewing logged smartdata afterwards, there are pointers to the drive being on its way to failure, usually absurd error rates and rapid increase in spin retry count.
Tue Aug 11 12:02:08 2009
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Aidil@Way of the Force: yeah, but would require you to always sit near the machine :)
Tue Aug 11 12:03:25 2009
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Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: Well, you're a knight. I'm a peasant. What to compare here?
Tue Aug 11 15:51:09 2009
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Ninja@Dead Souls Dev: i pick up a lot of old, throw-away machines, slap linux on them and use them for years.
Tue Aug 11 15:54:31 2009
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Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: High speed, high temperature, high wear.
Tue Aug 11 15:54:37 2009
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Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: These aren't designed for many years of use.
Tue Aug 11 15:55:47 2009
[dchat]
Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: After decade on ATA/33, every modern drive feels fast for me.
Tue Aug 11 15:57:01 2009
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Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: Ever saw Mel Brooks' History of the World?
Tue Aug 11 15:57:46 2009
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Sys@BlackHole: I think I saw it, but ages ago and not fully compis mentis
Tue Aug 11 15:57:57 2009
[dchat]
Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: "People of Israel! I have brought you fif... *one of the tablets falls down and breaks* teh commandments!"
Tue Aug 11 16:01:41 2009
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Sys@BlackHole: tho I think real stone tablets are harder to break, could always incase them in Boing TM
Tue Aug 11 16:01:44 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: the inquisition part at the very beginning is the best thing mel brooks ever did
Tue Aug 11 16:02:30 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: i'm still waiting for someone to explain the end to me
Tue Aug 11 16:03:11 2009
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Sys@BlackHole: gave up??!?! the best fighjt scene in any movie ever is giving up?
Tue Aug 11 16:11:53 2009
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Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: first occurance of the rescue team happens in the bar scene.
Tue Aug 11 16:12:29 2009
[dchat]
Sys@BlackHole: hmm posted by a Stanisslaw , tho too bandwidth hungry for me
Tue Aug 11 16:13:09 2009
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Sys@BlackHole: there seem to be a lot of Stanislaw's in my life at the mo, Grof, Lem and now that one
Tue Aug 11 16:23:51 2009
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Sys@BlackHole: I love the proof method of testing booze, "So we poor some on the gunpowder and if it still goes bang, that's proof
Wed Aug 12 00:11:22 2009
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Kalinash@Fire and Ice: depends... do you prefer to make the mess? or clean up someone else's mess? :)
Wed Aug 12 00:11:50 2009
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Mazu@Left To Die: It'd be nice if that was up to me, but I'll likely end up doing the first one, whether I intend to or not.
Wed Aug 12 00:12:00 2009
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Mazu@Left To Die: I'd be happy if I could do the latter too >.> But I'm still learning.
Wed Aug 12 00:35:52 2009
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Kalinash@Fire and Ice: i just wish using the litter box was one of them :(
Wed Aug 12 00:36:03 2009
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Mazu@Left To Die: Well, I'd be content knowing enough to get by for now >.>
Wed Aug 12 01:46:11 2009
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Hamlet@WWC: well. I think my drive has found its way back to comparitive stability long enough to backup some files, anyway.
Wed Aug 12 01:47:42 2009
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Hamlet@WWC: after all that fretting, I'm not seeing an overwhelming number of files that need saved anyway. very odd. apparently I don't _ever_ do anything useful :P
Fri Aug 14 01:54:23 2009
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Tricky@andSapid: I3 logs back. :) -- http://ebspso.dnsalias.org/i3logs/
Fri Aug 14 02:47:06 2009
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Quixadhal@Bloodlines: Nice Tricky, now if we had an lpc command to pull the last N entries from such logs, we could have a "browse" option for folks to use when deciding which channels to subscribe to. :)
Fri Aug 14 02:55:06 2009
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Quixadhal@Bloodlines: Ahhh, have to put the name in quotes... silly whitespace. :)
Fri Aug 14 02:57:03 2009
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Quixadhal@Bloodlines: Looks like you could easily add feeds for each channel's log page. Nifty.
Fri Aug 14 02:58:02 2009
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Tricky@Rock the Halo: Reminds me... need to add intermud.org feeds to the log page.
Fri Aug 14 04:53:33 2009
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Quixadhal@Bloodlines: So, where do people like mail-ordering hard drives from these days? I get other stuff from newegg, but they don't package drives very well, and UPS likes to practice their NFL skills on occasion.
Fri Aug 14 13:20:52 2009
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Aidil@GurbaHub: I prefer to pay the slightly higher price for getting disks from a brick and mortar shop.
Fri Aug 14 13:22:23 2009
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Aidil@GurbaHub: not coz of shipping (who knows what happened before those disks even entered the country, much bigger worry then the last bit from the reseller to your house) but because I can go there with a broken part and return home with a new one without having to wait for shipping delays.
Fri Aug 14 19:45:01 2009
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Kalinash@Fire and Ice: Operating system people get no respect. All the hoopla and credit goes to the folks six APIs above your stuff, who move pixels around and make .ZIP-BOOM. noises while wasting cycles with horrible abandon.
Fri Aug 14 19:45:42 2009
[dchat]
Kalinash@Fire and Ice: Bitterness equals 1 over the number of levels you are above the hardware. This, of course, makes hardware people infinitely bitter, which exactly matches observation.
Fri Aug 14 19:46:02 2009
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Sinistrad@Dead Souls Dev: I respect the ones that aren't trolling asses.
Fri Aug 14 19:46:18 2009
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Flumpy@Dead Souls Dev: but then i did write my own OS once, in uni - just a dos clone
Fri Aug 14 19:47:11 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: well Kal OS stuff is way beyond me I am still just starting to learn the hardware side stuff.
Fri Aug 14 19:52:02 2009
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Kalinash@Fire and Ice: Evil is too smart to be obvious. If Evil had a programming language it would be sweet and seductive, leading you down the primrose path to perdition and just massive screwedness (huh: Name a successful product done in, say, Smalltalk). C++ is not evil, rather, it is the language for masochists; it.s the kitty that purrs nicely to you until it.s earned your trust, and that.s when it turns into claws and utter batshit insanity.
Fri Aug 14 19:52:31 2009
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Kalinash@Fire and Ice: Every time you use #define, God kills a start-up.
Fri Aug 14 19:52:33 2009
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Vlad@Other_World_Dev: they seem to forget that there is actually a product that needs to function and look nice to users on top of their layer
Fri Aug 14 19:55:01 2009
[dchat]
Vlad@Other_World_Dev: the os guys are like, "What do you need a functional video and sound server for?"
Fri Aug 14 19:55:33 2009
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Vlad@Other_World_Dev: they think if you can access vi than all is good
Fri Aug 14 19:58:10 2009
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Vardogr@Legacies of Ora: What about Whitespace? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_%28programming_language%29
Fri Aug 14 20:00:02 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: i read Bjarne's Stroustrups idea for a whitespace operator- i suspect he was serious. whitespace operator overloading ftw!
Fri Aug 14 20:00:37 2009
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Vardogr@Legacies of Ora: You know, people can only think about that stuff so long before going off the deep end.
Fri Aug 14 20:01:03 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: well he's a prof he gets paid to think about the crazy deep end stuff i guess.
Fri Aug 14 20:01:05 2009
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Vardogr@Legacies of Ora: I suspect C++ did that to him long ago though.
Fri Aug 14 20:01:49 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: as for how practical it is i have no idea... C++ is a pretty whacky language in many respects.
Fri Aug 14 20:04:04 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: havent as of yet run into too many of the big gotchas yet.
Fri Aug 14 20:04:43 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: for elegance obviously smalltalk is kind of neat as is lisp/scheme.
Fri Aug 14 20:05:10 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: but i could not imagine doing without static type checking.
Fri Aug 14 20:08:08 2009
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Flumpy@Dead Souls Dev: damn there was this language.. it was c but they've redefined all the operators and stuff with #defines
Fri Aug 14 20:46:17 2009
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Tricky@Rock the Halo: Why is it that Office 2007 OEM is more expensive than the full retail version?
Fri Aug 14 20:50:13 2009
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Apache@FizzyMUD: Is referencing #define in dchat the same as using #define, for God's purposes?
Fri Aug 14 20:50:15 2009
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Sinistrad@Dead Souls Dev: I can only imagine the lack of those restrictions makes it more expensive.
Fri Aug 14 20:51:36 2009
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Sinistrad@Dead Souls Dev: If so, you just killed a start-up, Apache
Fri Aug 14 20:52:09 2009
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Tricky@Rock the Halo: You can buy a Home license for 85GBP ex vat OEM version versus 65GBP ex vat for Home retail in the UK. The only difference being that the OEM license unlocks a Office ready PC.
Fri Aug 14 20:52:23 2009
[dchat]
Kalinash@Fire and Ice: if it's a volume license version then yeah, mucho buckos
Fri Aug 14 20:53:19 2009
[dchat]
Kalinash@Fire and Ice: maybe if you stop sueing us we'll make it easier for you
Fri Aug 14 20:53:55 2009
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Tricky@Rock the Halo: I thought the EU hated Microsoft, not the other way round. Besides, I don't count myself as a Euro.
Fri Aug 14 20:54:26 2009
[dchat]
Tricky@Rock the Halo: Most of the UK doesn't count themselves as Euro, just the southerners.
Fri Aug 14 20:54:51 2009
[dchat]
Kalinash@Fire and Ice: Quebec doesn't think of itself as part of Canada, but they are
Fri Aug 14 20:55:34 2009
[dchat]
Sinistrad@Dead Souls Dev: You might not think of yourself as Euro, but politically and economically, you are
Fri Aug 14 20:55:48 2009
[dchat]
Sinistrad@Dead Souls Dev: Not that I'm supporting this "the OEM price is higher because MS hates the EU" bit
Fri Aug 14 20:56:06 2009
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Tricky@Rock the Halo: Candians have problems wondering whether they are French or English.
Fri Aug 14 20:57:04 2009
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Vlad@Other_World_Dev: no no no don't ever tell a Quebecer that they speak French or are French they will string you up
Fri Aug 14 20:57:10 2009
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Tricky@Rock the Halo: Politically and economically our government is an ASS
Fri Aug 14 20:58:03 2009
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Apache@FizzyMUD: you have to write it in english too, it's the law :)
Fri Aug 14 20:58:07 2009
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Vlad@Other_World_Dev: don't know but I had a lady from there rip my head off in a business conference call for suggesting they speak French
Fri Aug 14 20:59:29 2009
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Sinistrad@Dead Souls Dev: That's silly - AMericans aren't offended because we speak English. "NO NO!!! WE SPEAK EN-US!! ENNN YOUU EEESSS!!!!"
Fri Aug 14 20:59:57 2009
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Tricky@Rock the Halo: What's the official language of the US anyway?
Fri Aug 14 21:00:58 2009
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Kalinash@Fire and Ice: why do they print the driver's guide in chinese when none of the road signs are?
Fri Aug 14 21:01:14 2009
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Tricky@Rock the Halo: You should give half your country back to Mexico then.
Fri Aug 14 21:01:18 2009
[dchat]
Kalinash@Fire and Ice: YOU CAN GET A LICENSE WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO READ ENGLISH
Fri Aug 14 21:01:20 2009
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Apache@FizzyMUD: I think if anyone wants to move here, they should all learn this country's native language: Apache.
Fri Aug 14 21:01:29 2009
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Sinistrad@Dead Souls Dev: Vlad, I would've said, "Lady. What language am I speaking? It's fine to call it English."
Fri Aug 14 21:02:50 2009
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Kalinash@Fire and Ice: Texas, New Mexico and California have already been renamed "Northern Mexico" on their maps
Fri Aug 14 21:03:23 2009
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Vlad@Other_World_Dev: Azlan... our new S Court Justice is on there team...
Fri Aug 14 21:03:50 2009
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Apache@FizzyMUD: The joke's on Mexico..the jobs are all moving to China.
Fri Aug 14 21:04:13 2009
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Vlad@Other_World_Dev: they can have it as long as I get home made tortillias
Fri Aug 14 21:04:34 2009
[dchat]
Tricky@Rock the Halo: Mmm... and they just get more of your dollars to bankcrupt you wit
Fri Aug 14 21:04:51 2009
[dchat]
Apache@FizzyMUD: Wait until the Chinese get a load of our cunning plan to flood China with Mexicans...
Fri Aug 14 21:05:59 2009
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Kalinash@Fire and Ice: but the combination of Mexican Hairless dogs and Chinese cuisine...
Fri Aug 14 21:06:49 2009
[dchat]
Kalinash@Fire and Ice: the chinese have a saying, "chinese people will eat anything with it's back to the sun"
Fri Aug 14 21:08:00 2009
[dchat]
Vlad@Other_World_Dev personally can't wait for the combination of foods...
Fri Aug 14 21:08:24 2009
[dchat]
Vlad@Other_World_Dev: some general's chicken in a tortilla sound nice
Fri Aug 14 21:08:36 2009
[dchat]
Hellmonger@Trilogy: i've never seen a mad newer than the 1800's that had texas as 'northern mexico'
Fri Aug 14 22:16:05 2009
[dchat]
Vlad@Other_World_Dev: looks like I have a bunch to change in the skill/stat system... gonna be messy
Fri Aug 14 23:56:55 2009
[dchat]
Kalinash@Fire and Ice: seeing all those GALAXIES in a tiny spot of darkness in our sky :(
Fri Aug 14 23:58:05 2009
[dchat]
Kalinash@Fire and Ice: makes you wonder why you bother with anything other than personal gratification
Sat Aug 15 00:17:38 2009
[dchat]
Vlad@Other_World_Dev: Kal that is why Bertrand Russel died a bitter angry old man
Sat Aug 15 01:08:00 2009
[dchat]
Quixadhal@Bloodlines: Just hope it stays that way... if we ever meet a space-faring race, they'll be so vastly different and more evolved than us, that we'll look like a rather interesting new species of insect to them. The question will be, do they stick us in a glass jar, or just clean the planet with a bug bomb. :)
Sun Aug 16 19:11:43 2009
[dchat]
Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: Anybody knows a way to fix that popular mouse damage, when the wheelbutton sends two click events?
Sun Aug 16 19:12:01 2009
[dchat]
Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: Like, can I replace the microswitch, or is it sth more problematic?
Sun Aug 16 19:12:57 2009
[dchat]
Quixadhal@Bloodlines: Hmmmm, have you cleaned all the gunk out of the wheel assembly itself?
Sun Aug 16 19:13:43 2009
[dchat]
Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: Not counting the lubricant-style crap... yes.
Sun Aug 16 19:14:08 2009
[dchat]
Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: it seems to me very much like electrical.
Sun Aug 16 19:14:30 2009
[dchat]
Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: The switch loses the contact halfway thru the move or sth, and thus closes the circuit twice.
Sun Aug 16 19:14:38 2009
[dchat]
Quixadhal@Bloodlines: Ok, I was asking because sometimes the spring that the wheel uses will cause it to "bounce".
Sun Aug 16 19:15:52 2009
[dchat]
Quixadhal@Bloodlines: If it is the switch, it probably depends on how handy you are at soldering board-level stuff, and how hard it would be to find the right size switch.
Sun Aug 16 19:16:47 2009
[dchat]
Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: I did solder some PCBs in my life, but the switch is of the kinds that i ever saw only in mice.
Sun Aug 16 19:30:03 2009
[dchat]
Ninja@Dead Souls Dev: some stuff like that, you can use a pencil erasor to clean the contacts.
Sun Aug 16 20:23:38 2009
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Hamlet@WWC: I would think the danger with mice or keyboards is you could rapidly run up enough in labor and supplies to make just buying a new one a better idea. Unless it's a gold-plated theme mouse, of course.
Mon Aug 17 16:23:34 2009
[dchat]
Hamlet@WWC: sizeof(long long) yields 8, so one would think it's 64 bits wide, yes? But "long long foo = 1 << 40;" generates a warning.
Mon Aug 17 20:27:33 2009
[dchat]
Newt@ShadowMUDii Dev: isn't it always spammy? (I turned it off 5 mins after getting it)
Mon Aug 17 20:36:57 2009
[dchat]
Vardogr@Legacies of Ora: The issue for me seems to be that today it is continually sending the same last 7 news items, all at once, every 3-5 minutes or so.
Mon Aug 17 20:41:25 2009
[dchat]
Vardogr@Legacies of Ora: Yeah, it`s the weirdest thing... I was wondering if it might just be my mud`s router though. XD I`m on coffeemud and SVN head, so there`s always weird things that can go wrong. XD
Mon Aug 17 20:42:01 2009
[dchat]
Vardogr@Legacies of Ora: Although the fact that I can talk normally on this channel would suggest otherwise, come to think of it.
Tue Aug 18 19:53:48 2009
[dchat]
Keegan@Micropolis: what about the rest of us? That was a little unfair.
Tue Aug 18 20:00:08 2009
[dchat]
Vlad@Other_World_Dev: wodan said, "discworld's up" I said grats keegan would like some grats to come his way
Tue Aug 18 20:42:28 2009
[dchat]
Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: What about that execute instruction on ibm... 1401?
Tue Aug 18 20:42:43 2009
[dchat]
Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: the one that was in user mode but could lock the machine hard?
Tue Aug 18 20:42:59 2009
[dchat]
Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: do you had to wave magent over the core memory?
Tue Aug 18 20:43:43 2009
[dchat]
Raudhrskal@Dead Souls Dev: No, well... fire was more complex, and usually involved a peripheral.
Wed Aug 19 03:10:37 2009
[dchat]
Tsarenzi@Sremassande: Hm, hm. Think I've got the alchemy system all polished off. Now where do I want to post it to share.
Wed Aug 19 13:51:32 2009
[dchat]
Quixadhal@Bloodlines: For embellishments, I'd just make them recipies that have earlier finished products as a material, and result in a new product. So, you can add an embellishment, but to change one, you'd have to first remove the current one (giving you back the original product).
Wed Aug 19 13:55:45 2009
[dchat]
Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: i'm self taught so your jargon wont help much
Wed Aug 19 13:57:59 2009
[dchat]
Quixadhal@Bloodlines: That would be a fun filter to add... randomly replace nouns with hardware devices. :)
Wed Aug 19 14:00:09 2009
[dchat]
Quixadhal@Bloodlines: Hey, want to go throw a few fireballs as some kobolds -> Hey, want to go throw a few SH-S223B-OEM's at some WD6401AALS's?
Wed Aug 19 14:00:32 2009
[dchat]
Quixadhal@Bloodlines: I may have just defined the Gnomish language.
Wed Aug 19 14:03:39 2009
[dchat]
Quixadhal@Bloodlines: It might make a difference it that's radius vs. circumferance too.
Wed Aug 19 14:05:18 2009
[dchat]
Sys@BlackHole secretly whips out his duck call and lets out a few quacks
Wed Aug 19 14:06:28 2009
[dchat]
Quixadhal@Bloodlines: Purification eh? Is that what kids call it these days?
Wed Aug 19 14:08:11 2009
[dchat]
Quixadhal@Bloodlines: *Butthead voice* I've got a charmed longstaff... Huh, huh, huh.
Wed Aug 19 14:09:13 2009
[dchat]
Sys@BlackHole casts gigantic ale quaff then launches into a rendition of "The wizard's staff has a knob on the end."
Thu Aug 20 15:14:37 2009
[dchat]
Sys@BlackHole: it is neither morning, nor good. But I wish you a good morning nonetheless
Thu Aug 20 15:16:09 2009
[dchat]
Hamlet@WWC: that makes more sense than what I was going to say. so we'll go with it.
Sat Aug 22 00:43:28 2009
[dchat]
Vlad@Other_World_Dev: still have to update my graphics but we will see
Sat Aug 22 11:25:20 2009
[dchat]
Tsarenzi@Sremassande: Oof. That's frustrating. Updating the base file, but forgetting to update the inheriting file, because you didn't change it... and so the changes to the base file don't affect it.
Sat Aug 22 16:41:18 2009
[dchat]
Ninja@Dead Souls Dev: Any time, Blood Wolf...that's what I'm here for.
Sat Aug 22 16:41:45 2009
[dchat]
Ninja@Dead Souls Dev: And I'm in Australia now...didn't ya see me wave at ya when we passed?
Sat Aug 22 16:42:14 2009
[dchat]
Blood Wolf@The Lost Technology: nope. I flew from Sydney to LA then to Dallas, then to Lawton.
Sat Aug 22 16:42:30 2009
[dchat]
Ninja@Dead Souls Dev: oh, cwap...I went around the world the wrong way.
Sat Aug 22 16:43:35 2009
[dchat]
Blood Wolf@The Lost Technology: maybe the "ghost plane" as in ghost ship.
Sat Aug 22 16:43:45 2009
[dchat]
Blood Wolf@The Lost Technology: ur gonna be haunted for the rest of your life!
Sat Aug 22 16:47:28 2009
[dchat]
Blood Wolf@The Lost Technology: And she asked me for a vegemite sandwich. Yes, I do.
Sat Aug 22 17:35:45 2009
[dchat]
Hamlet@WWC: the only song (as far as I know) about flatulence ever. amazing it was a hit.
Sat Aug 22 17:41:41 2009
[dchat]
Hamlet@WWC: ok. with the exception of those. but, seriously... "I come from the land down under... can't you hear can't you hear that thunder?"
Mon Aug 24 03:58:57 2009
[dchat]
Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: but there's other stuff that's proven its reliability for longer
Mon Aug 24 03:59:25 2009
[dchat]
Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: the E3000 for example, thos long in the tooth and dead slow by todays standards
Mon Aug 24 03:59:48 2009
[dchat]
Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: i think you could drop them in a swamp for a week
Mon Aug 24 03:59:54 2009
[dchat]
Eltari@Porphyra: Well, the LX's ... that's getting pretty long in the tooth.
Mon Aug 24 04:00:29 2009
[dchat]
Eltari@Porphyra: Although I've still got my E3000 sitting in the corner, I should power it up some time soon for old time's sake.
Mon Aug 24 04:01:08 2009
[dchat]
Hamlet@WWC: 'sokay, Crat. You can rest in the confidence that *we* don't like *you*.
Mon Aug 24 04:01:09 2009
[dchat]
Eltari@Porphyra: Just remember to shake your fist from time to time.
Mon Aug 24 04:02:35 2009
[dchat]
Eltari@Porphyra: Out of a fleet of over a hundred V880s though, the only failures I had in three years were dead disks and faulty DIMMs from a bad batch.
Mon Aug 24 04:03:04 2009
[dchat]
Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: it's the same problem the old ultrasparcII had
Mon Aug 24 04:03:17 2009
[dchat]
Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: you need to use voodoo to be sure it seats right
Mon Aug 24 04:03:21 2009
[dchat]
Eltari@Porphyra: Just have to remember to tap 'em with a hammer in the centre of the SB and then give the screws another quarter-turn
Mon Aug 24 04:04:12 2009
[dchat]
Eltari@Porphyra: If you do enough of them, you can replace a backplane in under three minutes ...
Mon Aug 24 04:04:40 2009
[dchat]
Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: yeah you get attached to quirky stuff if you do it enough
Mon Aug 24 04:05:11 2009
[dchat]
Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: you just get affectionate to something that's held you hostage for days
Mon Aug 24 04:05:12 2009
[dchat]
Eltari@Porphyra: Well, they kept us all busy doing firmware upgrades weekly for a while ...
Mon Aug 24 04:06:02 2009
[dchat]
Eltari@Porphyra: I'm the sucker that spent too long in telcos looking after UNIX machines.
Mon Aug 24 04:07:52 2009
[dchat]
Eltari@Porphyra: Nice mudlib, by the way - was exactly what I needed.
Mon Aug 24 04:08:34 2009
[dchat]
Eltari@Porphyra: Hmmm, looks like I might get a chance to snag an E2900.
Mon Aug 24 04:09:01 2009
[dchat]
Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: i like the internal jbod guys like that but
Mon Aug 24 04:09:51 2009
[dchat]
Eltari@Porphyra: Well, consolidation got all trendy, so I turned my E250s and V210s into a V880.
Mon Aug 24 04:10:09 2009
[dchat]
Eltari@Porphyra: I'm used to it purring away now. Can't imagine using a baby machine any more.
Mon Aug 24 04:10:35 2009
[dchat]
Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: in terms of noise and power consumption, i'd rather run something like a niagara/huron/etc and use some crappy intel linus box for nfs storage
Mon Aug 24 04:11:39 2009
[dchat]
Eltari@Porphyra: Well, I have a T2000, but I only ever use it for LDOMs lab configs because it's just so damn noisy.
Mon Aug 24 04:12:01 2009
[dchat]
Eltari@Porphyra: My only beef with the daktari was filling all the internal bays and needing more storage, so I did this ... http://mexico.purplecow.org/index.php/Taco_SATA_Drives
Mon Aug 24 04:12:18 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: but yeah the t2000 and their cousins are crazy loud
Mon Aug 24 04:13:00 2009
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Eltari@Porphyra: I'm on the hunt for a Huron or Maramba, but they're not exactly being given away yet.
Mon Aug 24 04:14:24 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: cupla months ago i was workin on these 6250 blades
Mon Aug 24 04:15:43 2009
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Eltari@Porphyra: Have you heard the M-series yet? The noise is quite amazing.
Mon Aug 24 04:16:07 2009
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Eltari@Porphyra: I work from home and had an M4000 shipped over here for build
Mon Aug 24 04:16:27 2009
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Eltari@Porphyra: and fired it up in the loungeroom ... I ended up parking at the cafe around the corner and working remotely.
Mon Aug 24 04:17:10 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: and i really havent fallen in like yer with the partitioning system
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