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IRC Log for 2009-08-02

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[0:00] <icedwater> Yup
[0:00] <ruiwen> um.. ok..
[0:00] <ruiwen> have always had it appear in my panel though
[0:00] <ruiwen> this is in debian?
[0:00] <icedwater> Bloody hell, mine's 0.4
[0:00] <icedwater> Yeah.
[0:00] <ruiwen> yoinks
[0:00] <icedwater> Time to compile! :P
[0:01] <ruiwen> are you on lenny?
[0:01] <ruiwen> try sid perhaps?
[0:01] <icedwater> Nah, compile time :P
[0:02] <icedwater> Oh, look, someone's PPA has an amd64 build fof 0.8.
[0:02] <icedwater> s/fof/of/ ... Debbit!
[0:02] <icedwater> Also, I've finished the transcript of what I recorded yesterday.
[0:02] <icedwater> First pass of the transcript, anyway.
[0:04] <ruiwen> wow you transcibed the whole thing? have just finished chopping up on my side
[0:07] <icedwater> Yup, finished at 5am today :P
[0:07] <icedwater> Well, yesterday.
[0:07] <ruiwen> whoa.. crazy
[0:07] <ruiwen> =P
[0:09] <ruiwen> anyone have suggestions for the title of Episode 2?
[0:10] <icedwater> What colour is YOUR Hat? :P
[0:11] <ruiwen> hm..
[0:11] <icedwater> Incidentally, dpkg -i >debname< seems to have a lot of unmet dependencies. Is there any way to grab the dependencies from the current repo, then install the deb on top of it?
[0:12] <ruiwen> hm does the repo have those dependencies?
[0:12] <icedwater> I'm suspecting no.
[0:12] <ruiwen> ah
[0:12] <icedwater> Though the names look familiar.
[0:12] <icedwater> Maybe the versions aren't right.
[0:12] <ruiwen> quite possibly
[0:13] <ruiwen> if you're on stable
[0:17] <icedwater> Ah well.
[0:18] <ruiwen> using debian is usually quite handy for servers if you need a not-so-current version though
[0:18] <ruiwen> but that assumption has only failed me for mysql..found it pretty hard to get mysql 4 on it
[0:40] <ruiwen> draft episode 2 being uploaded now
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[0:59] <icedwater> jamesty1: When are you free on 3/4 Aug?
[1:01] <jamesty1> icedwater: oh you dropping by?
[1:01] <jamesty1> icedwater: hrm depends what you have in mind
[1:01] <icedwater> Arriving afternoon of 3 Aug in Aachen... should be done with settling down and admin by 3rd evening.
[1:02] <icedwater> Thus free on 4th. But I have to take a placement test on 5th.
[1:02] <icedwater> Beer will help :P
[1:07] <jamesty1> you wanna pop by nuremberg or what
[1:07] <jamesty1> aachen is pretty far
[1:10] <icedwater> Hm yeah it is.
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[1:10] <icedwater> Think we can schedule something, though my weekends are taken up by day trips.
[1:10] <icedwater> I'll be heading by Munich at the end of my trip.
[1:10] <icedwater> Thought you wanted to check out Aachen, though?
[1:10] <icedwater> Maybe one Friday night?
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[1:15] <jamesty1> yup i'm thinking of hitting there
[1:15] <jamesty1> any good weekends for me to visit?
[1:15] <icedwater> Hm, not too sure, let me confirm when I get there.
[1:15] <jamesty1> will you pass by nuremberg on your way to munich?
[1:15] <jamesty1> or i can meet you in munich
[1:15] <icedwater> Could be done.
[1:16] <jamesty1> icedwater: great, let me know
[1:16] <jamesty1> i'm out on 22-23rd aug weekend
[1:16] <jamesty1> will be in florence
[1:17] <jamesty1> 15 aug is a public holiday here, jfyi
[1:17] <icedwater> Can't remember what for?
[1:18] <jamesty1> assumption day
[1:18] <icedwater> Which is called what in German?
[1:19] <icedwater> I missed it last year, left the week before.
[1:22] <jamesty1> hrm i dunno
[1:35] <icedwater> Posted the draft transcript up on an etherpad :)
[1:35] <icedwater> By the way, when do we send Jim the link to the podcast?
[1:41] <ruiwen> icedwater: thanks for the transcript.. made a few edits to match what was chopped out of the audio recording
[1:42] <ruiwen> icedwater: when we have a finished version i guess
[1:43] <ruiwen> icedwater: will follow up with a thank you note first though
[1:44] <icedwater> Yup :)
[1:46] <icedwater> Anyone interested in the executive Masters in open source at UniSIM?
[1:46] <ruiwen> what does it cover?
[1:46] <icedwater> I'm not convinced it's going to be of any use, though...
[1:47] <icedwater> Not read it yet, but it doesn't sound very useful.
[1:49] <icedwater> http://www.unisim.edu.sg/uni/pub/OGS/OSOM_overview.html
[1:49] <icedwater> Well, seems fairly interesting ... though I'm not sure employers will be impressed by it.
[1:49] <icedwater> Isn't that what such Masters courses are for, resume improvement? :P
[1:50] <ruiwen> heh depends who you work for of course
[1:50] <icedwater> Uhhh... Red Hat? :P
[1:50] <icedwater> "Hey look! I took your Masters thingy. Can I work here?"
[1:51] <ruiwen> haha
[1:51] <ruiwen> yeah that might work
[1:51] <icedwater> But of course, a structured course with deadlines will help get work done.
[1:51] <icedwater> Library books have been a double-edged sword for me... I borrow too many and code too little :P
[1:53] <ruiwen> followup sent
[2:01] <icedwater> Nice.
[2:02] <icedwater> Bloody Pet Society crashing my Iceweasel.
[2:02] <icedwater> Or the combination of that and the podcast :P
[2:04] <icedwater> How does one erase CD-RWs on the command line?
[2:06] <ruiwen> hm..can't remember the command for that
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[2:59] <icedwater> Well, I installed cdrskin.
[3:00] <icedwater> cdrskin sits alongside cdrdao, so
[3:00] <icedwater> cdrskin blank=all worked for me. Eventually.
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[10:39] <triplez> morning
[10:39] <elfgoh> breakfast!
[10:43] <triplez> oooo for me?
[10:46] <cyberjames> morning
[10:50] <elfgoh> oops i finished it!
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[16:41] <iced-phone> Anyone awake?
[16:45] <triplez> yes
[16:45] <triplez> me
[16:52] <iced-phone> Morning ;)
[16:56] <triplez> morning?
[16:56] <triplez> you're in germany?
[17:01] <iced-phone> Well, nope, just preparing for the time zone change. :)
[17:01] <triplez> lol
[17:01] <triplez> so fast?
[17:01] <triplez> i thought you don't leave until sept
[17:04] <iced-phone> I'll be leaving tonight and coming back in September, hope to be leaving again then.
[17:06] <triplez> ooo
[17:06] <triplez> ok
[17:07] <triplez> have fun!
[17:10] <iced-phone> Quite sure I will, thanks.
[17:18] <jamesty2> moin
[17:19] <iced-phone> Hast du gut geschlafen?
[17:19] <jamesty2> iced-phone: man your german is too good for me
[17:20] <jamesty2> Ich habe sehr gut geschlafen
[17:20] <jamesty2> iced-phone: when are you graduating?
[17:20] <iced-phone> I'm sorry to disappoint you. That was just "Did you sleep well?"
[17:21] <jamesty2> yeah i know
[17:26] <iced-phone> Ich habe schon absolviert mit ein Bachelorabschluss, hoffentlich kann ich dazu ein M.Sc nehmen. Da du jetzt ein uebersetzer unbedingt liest ;)
[17:27] <iced-phone> Have fun translating :)
[17:27] <iced-phone> Couple of grammatical errors there but wtf.
[17:29] <jamesty2> Haben Sie für M.Sc noch?
[17:31] <iced-phone> Ich habe mich um einige bewerbt, aber habe bis heute keine Antwort.
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[17:36] <jamesty2> iced-phone: Viel Glück mit Ihrer Anwendungen!
[17:36] <triplez> we've turned german!
[17:36] <jamesty2> haha
[17:37] <jamesty2> triplez: time for you to speak canadian!
[17:37] <triplez> what do you mean speak canadian eh?
[17:37] <triplez> we speak proper english eh?
[17:37] <triplez> :P
[17:37] <iced-phone> Heh, those would be applications as in usage, not as in signing up, but thanks all the same :)
[17:37] <jamesty2> iced-phone: oops
[17:38] <jamesty2> iced-phone: as you can tell i haven't made much effort in learning german
[17:38] <iced-phone> Oops low batt
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[17:38] <jamesty2> trying to design a better scheduler now
[17:38] <jamesty2> hrm
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[23:06] <ziyong> ziroday: there?
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[23:32] <jamesty2> hrm
[23:32] <jarick> Good evening folks!
[23:32] <jamesty2> how do i find the mount point of a directory?
[23:33] <jamesty2> jarick: hey
[23:33] <jarick> ?
[23:33] <jarick> Rephrase?
[23:33] <jarick> Are you doing some kind of strange FUSE thing?
[23:33] <jamesty2> okay i want to know how much free disk space i have on the partition that a particular directory is on
[23:33] <jamesty2> nah just some simple command line t hing
[23:34] <jamesty2> so basically i want to know how much free space is available in, say, "/james"
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[23:34] <jamesty2> how do i do that?
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[23:35] <jarick> jamesty2: See if col 2 of /etc/mtab is present in the directory?
[23:36] <jamesty2> it's not
[23:36] <jarick> jamesty2: It has to be, one of the entries in /etc/mtab is /
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[23:37] <jarick> jamesty2: Also, stat(1) will give you the device of which the directory is mounted on.
[23:38] <jamesty2> jarick: ah yeah that's what i need
[23:38] <jamesty2> stat
[23:38] <jamesty2> thanks!
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