02:24:42 -!- lament has joined. 03:23:45 -!- andreou has joined. 03:27:08 Power to the peephole! 03:27:23 of course, http://www.sysadminday.com 03:27:33 power to the sysadmin, to hell with the people. 03:28:02 haha 03:28:07 Brilliant. 03:28:07 sysadmins are JERKS 03:28:13 HATE HATE SYSADMINS 03:28:36 HATE HATE SYSAD@$%!$%!#$!@#$@#NO CARRIER 03:28:37 :) 03:28:43 heh 03:30:26 * Taaus goes back to mutilating TinyScheme 03:31:19 tinyscheme! 03:31:29 Indeed. 03:32:37 tiny. scheme. 03:32:48 Redundantly tiny scheme! 03:33:07 tinyscheme? isn't this that greek whacko's implementation? 03:33:26 'Greek whacko'? Isn't that a bit... Pleonasmic? 03:34:37 But to answer your question, 'yes'. 03:34:39 no, there are two types of greeks 03:34:45 Oh? 03:34:58 The kafroi (plural of kafros, pronounced kAh-free) 03:35:11 and the mourloi (mOO-rleeh) 03:35:19 i am a mourlos kafros :) 03:35:23 How about the hoi polloi? :) 03:35:46 oi polloi (the many) are of no interest discussing. just simpletons. 03:35:56 Hehe :) 03:36:24 there is an increasing number of simpletons turning kafroi, tho 03:36:42 * Taaus smiles and nods, smiles and nods 03:37:22 eh 03:37:26 you know about greeks, taaus? 03:37:31 Not at all. 03:37:38 Hence my fervent smiling and nodding. 03:37:45 heh ok :)) 03:38:19 I don't expect other people to know about Danes, either ;) 03:38:50 danes are not as interesting as greeks (profound display of lack of knowledge about danes) 03:39:19 Teehee. You're probably right ;) 03:45:25 http://sysadminday.safeweb.be/Photos1/pMark_Sewage_P6060002.JPG 03:45:46 Oh boy. 03:46:23 'xactly. 03:47:01 http://sysadminday.safeweb.be/Photos1/pMaxim_Fire_Rack.jpg 03:47:15 anyway have a look at allof them at /Photo1.htm 03:47:25 Those switches really _do_ get hot, you know... ;P 03:47:44 yeah 03:48:27 i'm hoping one day i'll turn a rack full of cisco hardware into a rack full of cisco meltware. 03:49:34 A worthwhile goal, to be sure. 04:04:37 i'm going on vacation in a week and need a good book suggestion. not technical. 04:04:54 Hmm... How about some PKD novels? :) 04:05:12 Or something by Hofstadter. 04:06:44 maybe pkd 04:06:58 which one b hofstadter? i've (read) GEB:EGB and Fluid Concepts 04:07:12 FCACA is not a vacation/relaxation book. 04:07:40 Hmm... Metamagical Themas is good. So is The Mind's I. 04:07:53 (The latter is co-edited with Daniel C. Dennett) 04:08:10 yeah i remember... 04:08:18 any suggestioins for pkd? never read any 04:09:03 heh 04:09:11 i'm struggling through GEB 04:09:18 I can't force myself to read it 04:09:31 Hmm... Not sure, really. I thoroughly enjoyed his short stories. There are five books with PKD short stories. 04:09:38 lament: Heathen! 04:14:06 andreou: There's also a single book containing 3 of his early novels. 'The Man Who Japed', 'Dr. Futurity' and 'Vulcan's Hammer'. Especially Dr. Futurity was enjoyable. 04:14:49 andreou: Just get the cyberiad. 04:14:54 Taaus: Yes. 04:15:06 hm 04:15:12 ok 04:15:12 That sounds like Lem. I still need to read some of his stuff :/ 04:15:17 i'll see how fast i can order. 04:15:55 cyberiad is the second best book on anything for the layman. 04:16:25 Mmmkay. 04:16:26 what is it about? 04:17:16 It's a bunch of fairy tales. 04:21:34 I'm going to bed. Good night, all. 04:22:15 beh 04:23:25 "I liken starting one's computing career with Unix, say as an undergraduate, to being born in East Africa. It is intolerably hot, your body is covered with lice and flies, you are malnourished and you suffer from numerous curable diseases. But, as far as young East Africans can tell, this is simply the natural condition and they live within it. By the time they find out differently, it is too late. They already think that the writing of shell scripts is 04:23:26 Ken Pier, Xerox PARC 04:23:46 Heh... Looking at the Unix Hater's Handbook? 04:23:54 yeaah 04:24:15 there is a friend of mine 04:24:21 novice at the unixen 04:24:33 who only recently started learning and working with unix 04:24:49 fortunately he is now solaris installation engineer at the 2004 olympics athens data center ;p 04:25:02 he's learning perl and he's happy he watches his knowledge well change 04:25:32 well, if i direct him to the UHH he'll start shouting at me ``what kind of the worst lamer has written that piece of trinary shit'' 04:25:52 in ten years, he'll be cursing solaris, in twenty years he'll be writing the second editioin of UHH 04:26:01 isn't exquisite what unix can do to a man? 04:26:06 Quite. 04:35:27 -!- dbc has joined. 04:35:37 heh ey daniel 04:35:40 Hello. 04:35:46 (cruel world) 04:36:53 Taaus you got any pdf versions of uhh? 04:37:16 http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh-download.html 04:38:04 So no, it's not a Microsoft conspiracy. :) 04:38:21 That's what they _claim_. 04:38:34 Haven't been working any more on that mystery file; instead I've been shortening dbfi.b because this guy wants to write an article on it. 04:39:43 heh 04:41:17 ugh.pdf? 04:42:08 yeah 04:44:14 Unix-Gator's Handbook? 04:44:45 heh 04:44:49 <-- navigator 04:46:24 Right. 06:01:08 -!- andreou has quit ("andreou"). 07:09:30 wow, today's log is big. 07:09:39 All they yesterday's stuff is on there :) 07:59:59 -!- clog has quit (ended). 08:00:00 -!- clog has joined. 09:09:47 -!- lament has quit ("leaving"). 09:12:16 "One of the benefits of leaving regulation of this matter to the people rather than to the courts is that the people, unlike judges, need not carry things to their logical conclusion." 12:14:24 -!- andreou has joined. 12:20:35 erm 12:20:43 anyone has halflife/counterstrike serial or keygen? 12:20:46 pleeeaaazeeee ;p 12:22:13 -!- andreou has quit. 13:59:10 -!- dbc has quit ("You have no chance to survive make your time."). 15:01:56 -!- andreou has joined. 15:02:09 Power to the poplar! 15:02:32 Power to my argiles 15:02:38 Power and fire. 15:20:02 -!- andreou has quit. 20:03:30 -!- lament has joined. 21:33:49 Power and the grovy! 21:44:00 -!- Taaus has quit (niven.freenode.net irc.freenode.net). 21:45:18 -!- Taaus has joined. 21:45:18 -!- niven.freenode.net has set channel mode: +o Taaus. 22:15:06 -!- lament has quit ("leaving"). 23:22:47 -!- lament has joined.