00:00:02 pikhq, I would excuse the calculator on the grounds that everyone does it that way it seems 00:00:07 unless you are doing a CAS 00:00:20 in which case you don't try to emulate a calculator 00:00:41 Vorpal: Yes, but here's the thing: the menu/interface type thing is the normal UI convention on Windows. Except for the things that decide "fuck you". 00:00:52 ah 00:01:03 Most of which are Microsfot things. 00:01:07 But not ALL Microsfot things. 00:01:08 pikhq: I think the only UI-abusing Windows application that's actually got it right is Chrome. 00:01:33 alise: Probably. It actually doesn't feel like it's abusing the UI at all. 00:01:36 why do games get away with it 00:01:41 and no one complains 00:01:52 Bleh, hate Chrome's UI. 00:02:07 Vorpal: Because those run effectively single-tasked as the sole program on the system. 00:02:15 * Phantom_Hoover → sleep 00:02:32 pikhq, hm most have pretty extreme UIs though 00:02:41 Yes, but they're not integrated into the system. 00:02:48 well yeah 00:02:52 They're not an application in that you don't multitask with them. 00:02:52 mines is consistent I guess 00:02:59 They're like a reboot. 00:03:04 Without the reboot. 00:03:14 Gregor, you don't know how I play then 00:03:28 I always play windowed and pause if anything interesting happens on irc 00:03:34 now, night → 00:06:36 -!- Phantom_Hoover has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds). 00:08:49 yes, but you are also boring. 00:08:53 and hate fun. 00:09:04 pikhq: Consultant #1, get your ass over to #mitosis. 00:09:10 I hereby consult you on this matter. 00:16:02 pikhq: You are violating your contract. 00:17:59 Oooh 00:18:04 Factor 0.94 was released 00:21:49 i really wish slava died before he could invent factor. 00:21:57 anyone here played world of goo? 00:22:02 no, but it sounds fun enough to play sometime 00:22:37 i just finished the demo 00:22:43 considering pirating the rest >.> 00:23:19 -!- Mathnerd314 has joined. 00:23:39 * Sgeo feels a very, very strong urge to teach Haskell to someone 00:24:34 * quintopia hugs Sgeo 00:37:25 Sgeo: teach it to me. 00:37:30 i've suffered from amnesia 00:39:43 First thing to know: Functions are not like functions in most languages. Functions in Haskell only depend on arguments. So addition, (+). 1 + 1 is always two. All functions in Haskell behave like this 00:40:14 So you can't have a function that returns a random number 00:40:22 You can't have a function that reads input 00:40:23 etc. 00:40:54 Haskell does have a way of dealing with this, but first, we should learn about types 00:41:05 what he's saying is, there are not procedures without monads 00:41:16 -!- Gracenotes has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds). 00:41:21 or I/O type iirc 00:41:40 quintopia, alise doesn't actually not know this stuff 00:41:49 E just wants to see if I have any teaching ability 00:42:06 and i'm critiquing it to align more with your audience :D 00:42:29 this crowd prefers mathematical rigor, i think 00:42:54 Sgeo: no, actually 00:42:56 sorry. please continue. 00:43:18 i was already 99% sure you had no teaching ability, like almost everyone else including me, because teaching is really hard and not many people can do it at all 00:43:20 i'm just saving someone else 00:44:43 Anyways, things in Haskell have types. However, the type system in Haskell is more elaborate than in, say, C++ 00:45:06 lol <3 alise 00:45:28 Bleh, it's hard for me to do this over IRC 00:45:38 i'm actually not such a bad teacher, but i know that this is not a good environment for the teaching 00:45:40 I sort of want to be in front of the person, demonstrating syntax stuff 00:45:41 also what sgeo said 00:46:13 even if you feel like you're teaching well you probably aren't :p 00:46:23 you in general, not just specific-you 00:47:07 Syntax: a :: Sometype means that a has Sometype. Unlike many statically-typed languages, you often don't need to write types out 00:47:17 you must have high standards for the teaching 00:47:19 The type of 'a' is Char 00:47:32 If you have GHCi open, type :t 'a' 00:47:40 i think of a teacher as no more than a guide to point a student in directions of interest 00:49:04 Strings, delimited with "", like "this", are of type [Char] 00:49:14 [Char] means a list of Chars 00:50:10 This can also be written as String. String is, in fact, a synonym for [Char]. It's easy to define your own synonyms for types 00:51:04 Numbers are a bit different. 00:51:13 Try :t 5 00:51:14 quintopia: well, my day job's teaching Java 00:51:20 but I don't have to do it all by myself 00:51:33 You'll see the type is (Num a) => a 00:51:37 (and personally, I think it's an awful choice for a first language to learn) 00:51:51 my other day job is more interesting 00:52:13 ais523: agreed. but what are your usual methods? 00:52:20 Essentially, what this means is that within the stuff to the right of the =>, a is in the Num class. Don't worry about what this means just yet. 00:52:32 System.out.println's used quite a lot while you're learning 00:52:41 have I deliberately misinterpreted your question? 00:52:53 have you? 00:52:55 Only you can know that 00:53:12 well, I may have deliberately tried to misinterpret it, but accidentally interpreted it correctly 00:53:38 it was a useful answer, but not exactly what i was looking for no 00:53:47 i was thinking more along the line of how you interact with the students 00:53:50 at what level 00:54:01 how to manage the process/plan etc. 00:54:05 taking tutorial classes, and marking work 00:54:11 I'm not the main teacher for the course 00:54:21 aha 00:54:30 you get the most teaching done during the marking, because the student is there and you can explain the things they got wrong to them one-on-one 00:56:47 exactly 00:56:53 that's the part i like 00:57:46 Syntax: a :: Sometype means that a has Sometype. Unlike many statically-typed languages, you often don't need to write types out 00:57:47 not true 00:58:01 (a :: t) at the top level declares a to have type t -- which, obviously, doesn't typecheck if a isn't actually of type t 00:58:12 but as an expression, (a::t) coerces a to type t, if a can be coerced to type t 00:58:19 for instance, 5 is (Num a) => a, but (5::Integer) works 00:58:36 :/ 01:04:49 Why is Flash player randomly crashing on me? 01:05:00 AAAGH OH MY GOD OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK 01:05:12 pikhq: what 01:05:17 Texas recently ruled that proof of innocence is not a reason to give someone a new trial. 01:05:25 Just a technical mistake in a previous trial. 01:05:32 Yes, really. 01:05:35 Heh. 01:05:44 They have the death sentence. 01:05:47 ^__^ 01:05:47 And use it regularly. 01:05:54 pikhq: Really, the only cure is #mitosis. 01:06:01 Which from, I now depart. 01:06:02 Goodnight. 01:06:02 I prefer Texicide. 01:06:03 Bye. 01:06:04 -!- alise has quit (Quit: Leaving). 01:06:20 pikhq, linky? 01:06:54 Oh, sorry. *US SUPREME COURT* 01:06:59 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-c-fathi/shouldnt-innocence-matter_b_298507.html 01:07:07 -!- ais523 has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds). 01:07:28 I think I'm going to sign up for the GOP newsletter 01:07:55 Need to get some balance in my email reading material, see if it's as nutty as I'm imagining 01:08:36 -!- Gracenotes has joined. 01:08:53 Sgeo: Keep in mind they support a man who claims that Bush torturing innocent people was not cruel & unusual punishment because they were innocent and therefore it was not punishment. 01:09:08 You may now have your head asplode. 01:09:37 pikhq, are they merely trying to say that on some technical level, it was legally ok, but not necessarily morally? 01:09:58 -!- Leonidas has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds). 01:10:02 -!- Leonidas has joined. 01:10:13 Sgeo: No, they are saying that he is innocent but was charged in a "fair trial" and, as such, he shall be put to death. 01:10:29 Oh, wait. Sorry. Different context. 01:10:44 Sgeo: They are saying that it was legally OK and they don't even *care* about the morals. 01:10:56 "TERRORISTS THEREFORE NO MORALS" 01:10:59 Honest to god. 01:12:57 -!- sftp has quit (Remote host closed the connection). 01:13:11 Aaand there shall be no repeal of DADT coming, because the Republicans are willing to fillibuster the defense authorization bill to do so. 01:13:22 (the bill that keeps the military going for another year) 01:23:36 -!- augur has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds). 01:24:42 tbh, it should not have been in the defense authorization bill, imo 01:25:34 put it in the omnibus, why not? 01:27:14 Sgeo: It's de facto the omnibus "everything to do with the military" bill, and has been for ages. 01:27:28 Sure, it shouldn't be there, but it's not like it's some bizarre politicing. 01:27:33 Just retarded tradition. 01:28:00 Suppose it never gets passed. 01:28:02 What happens? 01:28:11 The military stops. 01:32:26 -!- oerjan has joined. 01:34:41 -!- Leonidas has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds). 01:34:52 -!- augur has joined. 01:35:02 -!- Leonidas has joined. 01:35:07 -!- jix has quit (Ping timeout: 255 seconds). 01:35:18 -!- jix has joined. 01:36:29 ... omg. Yes. Awesome X-D 01:37:03 ? 01:37:34 Filibustering the defense authorization bill. 01:37:47 mm 01:38:41 i need to listen to some behavior 01:43:10 -!- nooga has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds). 01:59:29 It seems to have been concluded that if DADT is repealed, the US troops in Afghanistan will instantly drop their weapons (and drawers) and have a whole-country gay orgy. 02:00:13 hurray! 02:01:00 how many republicans do we need to assassinate to make that happen? 02:01:22 if we just took out the filibusterer, would there be enough confusion in the following moments to get it through? 02:01:53 Naw, that would just get the legislation back on the table. 02:02:12 Gregor: Whole-country gay orgy would certainly be an improvement. 02:02:44 If that would be what DADT would cause, if I were Obama, I would immediately order a whole-country gay orgy after signing the bill. 02:02:51 I should've chosen my innuendo-words more carefully, as they will most certainly not be /dropping/ their weapons :P 02:03:43 their rifles or their guns? 02:04:23 Hyuk 02:06:03 i feel sorry for the women in this campaign. their gay orgy won't be as big :/ 02:06:51 But it shall be hot. 02:12:50 -!- Mathnerd314 has quit (Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86-rdmsoft [XULRunner 1.9.2.8/20100722155716]). 02:21:57 I wonder if the fact that mmap is crazy-slow here is just because it is, or because I'm running this on qemu-system-arm ... 02:22:30 Something is probably up. 02:25:02 mmapping 64MB = crazy-slow. 02:25:30 Running these tests (that mmap three 64MB regions) takes 14 seconds. 02:34:20 That's absolutely bizarre. 02:34:41 mmap should take not very long. 02:34:49 Just a matter of rewriting the page table, after all. 02:35:33 I'm going to guess that qemu-system-arm has its own, retarded, implementation of mmap. 02:41:25 Yeah, probably. 02:41:33 I should try extracting the binary and running it under qemu-arm 02:43:37 Sure enough, runs great on qemu-arm. 02:43:41 Probably just qemu-system-arm. 02:43:56 300ms on qemu-arm, 14sec on qemu-system-arm :P 02:44:04 That's about right. 02:44:28 (And 170ms native) 02:51:05 -!- augur has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer). 02:51:07 -!- augur_ has joined. 02:51:30 -!- Gracenotes has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer). 02:51:53 -!- Gracenotes_ has joined. 02:51:58 -!- Gracenotes_ has changed nick to Gracenotes. 02:55:37 -!- augur_ has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds). 03:03:27 is there a completely general funge interpreter out there? where dimension, delta-v=instruction correspondences and wrapping functions are all specified in a config file? and implements the spec completely? 03:04:06 So, I sent someone a friend request 03:04:24 Now, in the stream it shows that she (and other people) are attending events 03:04:30 This is a little bit unsettling 03:05:33 before she accepted? 03:06:41 Yes 03:06:47 Actually, she hasn't accepted yet 03:07:06 maybe she doesn't have her events set to hide from friends of friends 03:07:37 That too, I guess 03:09:05 -!- wareya has joined. 03:09:26 can anyone answer my question? 03:12:15 -!- wareya_ has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds). 03:29:58 Oh look, the "Not now" thing is implemented 03:30:15 quintopia: I don't know of one, but the fungers all seem to be offline. 03:35:35 so who does that leave? 03:49:34 -!- sshc_ has joined. 03:49:36 -!- sshc_ has quit (Changing host). 03:49:36 -!- sshc_ has joined. 03:52:06 -!- sshc has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds). 04:46:00 answer: me, by myself :/ 04:46:54 BOOO! 04:47:15 quintopia: ąįųęǫ! 04:47:41 AHHHH SCARY! 04:47:50 (no, i have no idea about your question. well actually i _vaguely_ recall someone mentioning something but no idea what it was called) 04:47:52 damn, i didn't realize i was sitting on the woodwork 04:48:44 -!- augur has joined. 04:56:43 -!- augur has quit (Ping timeout: 255 seconds). 05:18:11 -!- Sgeo has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds). 05:20:12 -!- Sgeo has joined. 05:20:25 Dear Ubuntu: PLEASE STOP ACTING LIKE AN UNSTABLE PIECE OF SHIT! 05:20:56 I prefer my pieces of shit stable. 05:23:43 -!- bsmntbombdood has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds). 05:23:49 don't we all 05:28:41 a more solid argument is just more solid bullshit 05:44:58 -!- oerjan has quit (Quit: Later). 05:48:16 anyone know if an SD card can be made bootable? 05:50:13 -!- augur has joined. 06:04:07 quintopia: No reason why not, bootable on what? 06:04:09 Standard PC? 06:04:25 If your PC can USB-boot, and you have a USB SD card reader, it can SD-boot. 06:05:06 yeah 06:05:09 i figured out as much 06:05:25 apparently my external card reader can be made to boot, but not the onboard one 06:05:30 good enough for me 06:06:21 -!- lament has joined. 06:07:58 My computer will only boot from USB maybe 1/20th of the time 06:08:56 heyo 06:12:54 ih 06:16:49 -!- GreaseMonkey has joined. 06:25:34 Gregor, don't forget to breathe 06:32:55 -!- Zuu has quit (Ping timeout: 276 seconds). 06:33:38 lament: soup 06:34:28 nmuch 06:34:54 lame 06:36:47 well 06:36:58 i got the urtext of mozart's sonatas as a present 06:37:10 and printed a go board to put on my bathroom door 06:37:27 and got some mooncake for the midautumn festival 06:37:42 and got a notice from the landlord reminding that marijuana is illegal 06:38:05 you aren't growing any are you? 06:38:18 not atm 06:38:30 do you even have a backyard? 06:38:59 (i'm assuming by the fact that your landlord bothers to point this out that you don't have the power to grow it in the basement 06:39:02 ) 06:54:14 -!- tombom has joined. 06:58:48 -!- augur has quit (Remote host closed the connection). 06:59:24 -!- augur has joined. 07:04:10 -!- MigoMipo has joined. 07:16:16 * quintopia hands everyone awake a beer on a floppy disk coaster 07:16:33 you are expected not to drink it if you are not of legal age in your place of residence 07:30:12 -!- FireFly has joined. 07:50:37 -!- tombom has quit (Quit: Leaving). 07:59:59 -!- clog has quit (ended). 08:00:00 -!- clog has joined. 08:11:46 -!- MigoMipo has quit (Remote host closed the connection). 08:26:33 -!- lament has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds). 08:53:34 -!- lament has joined. 08:59:44 -!- lament has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds). 09:02:39 -!- FireFly has quit (Quit: swatted to death). 09:19:37 -!- nooga has joined. 10:40:14 -!- nooga has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds). 10:45:50 -!- Zuu has joined. 10:45:51 -!- Zuu has quit (Changing host). 10:45:51 -!- Zuu has joined. 11:23:52 -!- GreaseMonkey has quit (Quit: Welcome honored guest. I got the key you want! would you like onderves. of Yourself). 12:09:20 -!- nooga has joined. 12:38:40 hi 12:39:08 what is a monad 13:00:55 -!- sftp has joined. 13:04:34 -!- Sgeo has quit (Quit: Ex-Chat). 13:32:09 -!- Mathnerd314 has joined. 13:40:31 -!- oerjan has joined. 13:43:44 what is a monad 13:43:46 argh 13:46:52 it's a very abstract concept which apparently cannot be understood by most people (even programmers) immediately by any means whatsoever, whether by the strict definition (in haskell _or_ even worse the original category theory), lame analogies with burritos, or heaps of examples. however if you combine all three and stir for a long time, it _may_ eventually click for you. 13:47:51 * oerjan actually never had a problem with it, but then he already had a math phd when encountering them 13:50:15 Wait, I thought it was a member of a people that travels from place to place to find fresh pasture for its animals, and has no permanent home. Or am I thinking of nomad here? 13:51:06 fizzie: cue reddit pun thread 13:51:28 * oerjan was too lazy to try to continue it 13:51:56 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad_(disambiguation) still has that "For Haskell Nomads, please see Monad (functional programming)" line. 13:52:34 * oerjan tries to google for "no you are thinking of nomads" without luck 13:54:16 "no you are thinking of" site:reddit.com monad doesn't help either 13:54:39 apparently there is a great reddit pun thread missing here 13:55:31 (on the other hand googling for "no you are thinking of" site:reddit.com may give you a hint of what i was expecting there) 13:57:50 even leaving out reddit doesn't help :( 13:59:24 "No, you are thinking of an archivist. An anarchist is a violet variety of quartz often used in jewelry." 13:59:31 Yes, that sure sounds sensible. 14:01:06 indeed 14:01:39 sensible enough that i think i guessed what the next word is, anyway 14:05:44 ooh hobbit pun day 14:17:03 Stands to reason you'd appreciate them especially. 14:21:08 -!- FireFly has joined. 14:22:05 -!- Gracenotes has quit (Read error: Operation timed out). 14:29:15 * oerjan tried in vain to predict the pun before the last panel 14:31:09 panel panel 14:31:13 plane 14:31:47 lanpe 14:32:06 Panel is a land-locked mountainous country in Asia. 14:32:26 biodiesel 14:33:30 rhabarbar 14:33:36 cucumber 14:34:39 and 14:34:43 last but not least 14:34:48 supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 14:35:31 well 14:35:34 Methionylglutaminylarginyltyros-ylglutamylserylleucylphen-ylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylgl-utamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalan-ylphenylalanylvalylprolyphenylalanY-lvalythreonylleucylglycylaspartylp-rolylglycylisoleucylglutamylglutam-inylsErylleucyllysylisoleucylasp-artylthreonylleucylIsoleucylglutam-ylalanylglycylalanylasparthlalanylleucy-lglutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylp-henylalanylseRylaspartylprolylleucylal-anylaspartylglycylpRolylthreOnyli 14:35:51 only 2k letters, sorry for spam 14:36:03 it got cut off anyhow 14:37:18 fear of long words -> Hippopotomonstrosequippeddaliophobia 14:38:00 are you sure that last one is correctly spelled 14:38:49 not that it makes sense anyhow 14:49:29 -!- BeholdMyGlory has joined. 14:49:35 -!- BeholdMyGlory has quit (Changing host). 14:49:35 -!- BeholdMyGlory has joined. 14:50:18 -!- augur has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds). 15:06:23 oerjan: http://ohyeahfacts.tumblr.com/post/1049794757/methionylglutaminylarginyltyros-ylglutamylserylleucylphe 15:14:13 -!- ineiros has quit (Ping timeout: 276 seconds). 15:24:45 -!- oerjan has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds). 15:24:50 -!- oerjan has joined. 15:30:47 -!- atrapado has joined. 15:32:53 -!- bsmntbombdood has joined. 15:33:09 -!- alisenix has joined. 15:33:16 [ 57.122] (**) Chicony USB 2.0 Camera: Device: "/dev/input/event7" 15:33:17 [ 57.125] (II) Chicony USB 2.0 Camera: Found keys 15:33:21 [ 57.125] (II) Chicony USB 2.0 Camera: Configuring as keyboard 15:33:23 Thanks, X! 15:35:45 17:08:53 Sgeo: Keep in mind they support a man who claims that Bush torturing innocent people was not cruel & unusual punishment because they were innocent and therefore it was not punishment. 15:35:47 beautiful 15:36:22 17:28:11 The military stops. 15:36:24 haha wow really? 15:36:31 that would be a hilarious, hilarious day 15:37:53 19:03:27 is there a completely general funge interpreter out there? where dimension, delta-v=instruction correspondences and wrapping functions are all specified in a config file? and implements the spec completely? 15:37:57 well Language::Befunge does n-dimensional 15:46:37 -!- augur has joined. 15:46:43 -!- alisenix has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds). 15:47:43 -!- SgeoN1 has joined. 15:47:50 I am going to cry 15:48:05 Ubuntu hates this school's wifi for some reason 15:48:13 My phone works just fine 15:48:25 Windows used to work just fine 15:49:26 -!- SgeoN1 has quit (Client Quit). 15:53:40 -!- alise has joined. 16:01:33 -!- augur has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds). 16:13:51 -!- Phantom_Hoover has joined. 16:14:16 -!- ineiros has joined. 16:45:26 I keep on thinking there's someone called Phoenix Arizona. 16:46:56 Damn you, Americans 16:47:01 *! 16:47:27 Phantom_Hoover: well there _might_ be. nice way to be hard to google... 17:14:28 -!- Zuu has quit (Ping timeout: 276 seconds). 17:18:41 -!- Zuu has joined. 17:18:42 -!- Zuu has quit (Changing host). 17:18:42 -!- Zuu has joined. 17:21:15 someone tell sgeon1 to use wicd 17:21:51 A network configuration server? 17:22:30 wat 17:22:45 wicd is a wifi thing 17:23:04 also he has to install dhcpd for it because otherwise it's crap 17:23:36 -!- yoday has joined. 17:23:57 -!- yoday has left (?). 17:33:06 -!- oerjan has quit (Quit: Good night). 17:34:03 * Phantom_Hoover → things 17:35:10 s; 17:36:09 where's ais! :D 17:38:38 also he has to install dhcpd for it because otherwise it's crap <-- ipv6 supports stateless autoconfiguration *runs* 17:42:19 no, dhcpd is a dhcp toolkit that wicd can use 17:42:21 to connect better 17:42:39 or is it dhcpcd 17:42:41 something like that 17:43:47 CC [M] drivers/md/raid6altivec1.o 17:43:47 CC [M] drivers/md/raid6altivec2.o 17:43:48 what? 17:44:01 this is a x86-64 17:44:04 not a ppc 17:44:56 wat 17:50:50 Windows XP Embedded with Service Pack 2 » applications windows 17:50:51 cheater, exactly! 17:50:55 ^_^ 17:51:11 hello alise 17:51:38 check this out, i refactored this shitty app we're using to only 10% the size! 17:51:49 actually no, call that 2% 17:51:56 am i cool or wat? 17:52:55 ah it is #ifdefed out 17:53:07 cheater: wat 17:53:33 alise: yes 17:54:00 alise: the code i refactored is shrunk from e.g. 100's of lines per method to 2-5 lines. 17:55:33 what did it do? 17:56:07 it's a toxic waste and uranium transport management/stock keeping application 17:58:19 He rewrote the whole thing as "return new Transfer(States::NewJersey);" 17:59:15 yes 17:59:37 cheater: i doubt 17:59:50 alise: what do you doubt? 18:00:10 the fact that it's reduced by that amount? 18:01:35 alise: i have no reason to lie. 18:01:51 alise: in fact, i don't remember any time i'd had a reason to lie to anyone in here 18:02:04 i lie a lot to chicks i want to impress :p 18:02:18 and to people who are prospective sources of jobs :p 18:02:49 -!- atrapado has quit (Quit: Abandonando). 18:06:59 cheater: i doubt it's a toxic waste and uranium transport management/stock keeping application 18:08:33 alise: well it is 18:08:40 alise: why would you doubt that? 18:08:56 something has to manage all that crap 18:09:01 do you know how much paperwork it is? 18:09:33 -!- cal153 has quit. 18:09:53 if you have an industrial zone then you have to have full documentation and catastrophe plans for every toxic agent that you use there 18:10:14 this is one of the main points of this application's existance :D 18:11:13 just autogenerating paperwork 18:12:04 -!- tombom has joined. 18:12:18 -!- Phantom_Hoover has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds). 18:12:54 cheater: oh, paperwork 18:13:03 i thought you meant it actually handled that stuff 18:15:25 -!- cal153 has joined. 18:16:53 -!- alise_ has joined. 18:18:31 -!- alise__ has joined. 18:19:54 -!- alise has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds). 18:21:06 -!- alise_ has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds). 18:32:24 alise__: transport management and stock keeping 18:32:45 alise__: what else can you understand under 'handling uranium'? 18:32:49 it doesn't run the reactor, no 18:32:53 but i never said it did 18:33:00 not sure what else you could be thinking of 18:38:21 cheater: i meant, like 18:38:23 i don't know 18:38:29 some automated part of uranium handling :P 18:43:50 xDD Windows XP "Embedded" Edition is 3 CDs 18:46:49 alise__: I'm pretty sure that that's courtesy of having a lot of optional stuff. 18:47:15 It wouldn't surprise me if it's got multiple compiled versions of programs for the sake of being able to take out features. 18:47:38 So, yeah, kinda ridiculous, but not as ridiculous as you'd think. 18:47:50 pikhq: Yeah: precisely. 18:47:57 pikhq: That's why I'm downloading it. Remember MiniXP? 18:48:03 It's about to get a whole fucking lot more mini. 18:48:19 Awesome. 18:48:27 alise__: win xp PE is the best one i've found so far 18:49:02 alise__: Gotta love having XP as an actually sane OS. 18:49:08 Well, somewhat sane. 18:49:14 It's still Win32, after all. 18:55:17 cheater: PE -- the pirate edition thing? 18:56:39 -!- zeotrope has joined. 18:56:54 alise__: performance edition 18:56:58 i thought there was only one PE 18:58:02 i think it was about or under 200 mb 19:00:40 alise__, where can you find that embedded edition? 19:00:53 alise__, and um, does that exist for any newer version? 19:01:07 after all.... xp is kind of... not going to be supported for many years from now 19:03:30 Vorpal: Windows Embedded 2009. 19:03:39 Which is itself an updated version of XP Embedded. 19:04:11 XP Embedded should be supported for a few years more, though. 19:04:58 Oh, *groan* 19:05:08 They made a Windows Embedded Standard 7. 19:05:18 Which is about 300MB. 19:05:26 Facepalm. 19:07:15 -!- iamcal has joined. 19:09:28 -!- cal153 has quit (Ping timeout: 255 seconds). 19:14:01 Which is itself an updated version of XP Embedded. <-- how fun 19:14:14 pikhq: Hey, they've always got WinCE ;) 19:14:29 pikhq, 300 MB is *way* smaller than full 7 Pro at least 19:14:36 pikhq, which is about 7 GB for the install 19:14:47 (x86-64, never tried 32-bit version) 19:14:58 That's smaller than Vista. 19:15:46 Gregor, way bigger than x64 XP though 19:15:57 Gregor, which iirc is about 2.1 GB 19:16:08 and that ix x86-64, not 32-bit 19:24:48 cheater: yeah that one 19:24:50 mine is so cooler 19:26:16 cheater: is that the one that replaced the explorer with the win95 one? :) 19:27:17 no 19:27:34 it doesn't use the xp shell 19:27:42 it uses the "classic mode" 19:27:47 i.e. basically w2000 shell 19:27:59 -!- jcp has quit (Quit: Later). 19:29:42 Gregor: Ah, WinCE. An actual, legitimate embedded OS. 19:50:43 "Also shit" 19:50:55 cheater: there's one -- pirate edition or something -- that actually removes IE completely 19:50:57 all the components 19:51:04 and substitutes Win 95's explorer 19:51:14 since 98 onwards' explorer.exes require IE 19:53:06 One could probably, alternately, substitute in ReactOS's explorer.exe. 19:53:29 (now that it actually acts as a normal explorer.exe instead of a hacked up one) 19:57:03 -!- Sgeo has joined. 20:05:53 pikhq: nice! 20:05:57 pikhq: is there a download anywhere? 20:06:32 does anyone know what the standard method is in Ubuntu for scheduling a periodic task? 20:06:34 like anacron 20:07:35 mrr? 20:08:06 ah 20:08:41 pikhq: http://www.foxplanet.de/explorer/ 20:08:52 is it always in that gross MDI view? 20:10:01 alise__: That looks like the WINE fileman.exe, actually. 20:10:06 yeah 20:10:12 it's an old site for the reactos explorer, so 20:10:17 I think it can do the more normal SDI view. 20:10:55 It is probably in a CAB on the ReactOS install disk. 20:12:02 pikhq: just check out the svn source :P 20:12:32 :D it runs in wine 20:13:00 Should also build with Winelib. :P 20:13:10 pikhq: HAVE FUN WITH THAT 20:13:21 * alise__ sets to SDI 20:13:40 it lists no dir contents :) 20:14:07 pikhq: a bigger issue is that the desktop sucks 20:14:12 and i see no task bar 20:15:24 alise__: It's probably running as just a file explorer, rather than the shell. 20:15:58 nope 20:16:01 it gave me a desktop 20:21:42 -!- Phantom_Hoover has joined. 20:27:37 Frat Tom Hoover 20:27:53 -!- SgeoN1 has joined. 20:28:15 What's the easiest way to check for damages wifi hardware? 20:28:18 Damaged 20:31:39 -!- SgeoN1 has quit (Client Quit). 20:31:46 What's the easiest way to test if the wifi hardware is damaged? 20:33:06 pikhq: That was a Consulting Order :P 20:34:58 PhatTom Hoover. 20:35:08 (Lumenos' name for me, it seems.) 20:35:23 pikhq: Do you know what time Astronomy Picture of the Day updates? 20:42:18 "Q13: What if I used to be a millionaire but then I believed something I read on APOD and now own only a single dented bucket? 20:42:18 A13: There are no guarantees. Use APOD information at your own risk." 20:43:14 No seriously when does it update? 20:46:04 -!- ais523 has joined. 20:46:42 -!- Sgeo has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds). 20:46:51 hi ais523 20:46:57 do you know when Astronomy Picture of the Day updates? 20:48:00 no, I didn't even know it existed 20:48:06 although it seems a plausible sort of thing to exist 20:53:56 -!- cheater99 has joined. 20:54:55 ais523: err, it's NASA's 20:54:57 been going since 1995 20:55:23 anyone know what the simplest way to check if a Linux box has connected to the internet yet from a shell script? 20:55:36 that doesn't necessarily mean I had to know it existed 20:55:47 alise__: ping something, or check DNS records for something on the Internet at large 20:55:57 ais523: i was thinking more ifconfig :-) 20:55:58 but interesting 20:56:00 linux linux uhuhuhu 20:57:36 alise__: fedora pings fedoraproject.org at boot to check if the box is online 20:57:42 haha 20:57:46 and what if fedoraproject.org goes down? 20:58:09 probabyly they're really confident 20:58:15 probably* 21:02:53 "And whom are you?!" "What do you mean whom am I...m" 21:06:20 No seriously when does APOD update. 21:06:24 Is there even a fixed time? 21:08:44 pikhq: I will bet you real money on how small I can get a usable XP. 21:19:24 pikhq: 1/3 cents 21:19:24 :P 21:22:49 -!- ais523 has left (?). 21:22:57 -!- ais523 has joined. 21:23:22 hi cycling ais523 21:23:27 -!- nomed has joined. 21:23:33 alise__: it wasn't a deliberate cycle 21:23:40 this touchpad is really inaccurate 21:23:55 to the extent that it'll occasionally middle-click on something that isn't even near where I thought the mouse pointer was 21:23:59 while I'm trying to type 21:25:04 |o| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9B1Mzi4oE0&feature=player_embedded 21:26:40 -!- nomed has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer). 21:29:05 hmm, was that a spambot? 21:29:14 not being able to see the link, I have no idea 21:29:31 yes 21:36:59 alise__: Any progress/luck? 21:38:46 pikhq: On? 21:38:51 XPe? 21:38:54 alise__: Yuh 21:38:55 I'm going to try installing it ASAP. 21:39:01 Stock install in a VM. 21:39:03 Then the fun begins. 21:39:07 I wonder if nLite works with it. 21:39:13 Just in case it has a limit to how much you can remove. 21:47:23 Seems that nLite works with anything that uses the XP installation scheme. 21:47:37 That is, Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003. 21:50:13 alise__: git, hg or bzr? 21:50:24 cheater: what i use? git 21:50:28 bzr sucks, hg is boring 21:50:30 if not git i'd use darcs 21:50:34 why does bzr suck? 21:50:39 cheater: it's just lame. 21:50:49 in what ways? 21:50:56 all ways 21:51:01 pikhq: But XPe? It has a component-based system. 21:51:01 well, expand on that 21:51:01 brb 21:51:06 cheater: i can't articulate it 21:51:10 it's just the most meh VCS ever created 21:51:14 i'm pretty much sold on bzr 21:51:21 since it feels better than git 21:51:21 maybe you're boring 21:51:24 no it doesn't 21:51:24 might be 21:51:29 git has a very solid foundation underneath 21:51:36 that of a versioned userspace filesystem -- not a vcs, the vcs is built on top 21:51:42 once you grok this, git becomes incredibly comfortable 21:51:43 brb 21:53:31 alise__: So does normal XP. Just without a GUI. 21:54:26 cheater: bzr does everything wrong. 21:55:46 Yes, including that. And that. 21:55:48 Also that. 21:59:25 cheater, I find bzr nicer to use than git 21:59:38 ... wow. 21:59:41 That statement just blew my mind. 21:59:51 cheater, though for some stuff I find hg more convenient, mostly when dealing with huge repos 22:00:20 pikhq: try coming up with something less childish than that 22:00:28 cheater, bzr is not as fast as hg for really really large (>150 MB source code, thousands of files) repos 22:00:34 alise__: a versioned userspace filesystem isn't something i necessarily care a lot about 22:00:38 cheater: Are you familiar with how GNU tends to make stuff? 22:00:52 no 22:01:03 bzr is like that. 22:01:10 pikhq, lucky that bzr was not made by GNU 22:01:15 that made no sense. 22:01:41 Vorpal: It's the replacement for GNU arch, though. 22:01:47 pikhq, well yes 22:02:32 order of preference: bzr, hg, darcs, ..., svn, git, cvs, rcs, monotone 22:02:39 I suck at explaining what sucks about it. 22:02:50 pikhq, just a subjective preference 22:03:00 same reason I like it 22:03:30 pikhq: i was just gonna say you suck at explaining :p 22:03:33 glad we agree. :p 22:04:16 cheater, nothing really wrong with bzr apart from that it can be a bit slow on *really* large repos. If you run into that I suggest using hg. 22:04:18 Well, regardless, we can all agree it's a step up from SVN, CVS, and *shudder* RCS. 22:04:31 pikhq, monotone is worse than rcs though 22:04:42 Vorpal: thx 22:05:06 pikhq, also I would place that "visual sourcesafe" down near the bottom 22:05:10 based on what I heard about it 22:05:23 Vorpal: Visual SourceSafe isn't even multiuser. 22:05:27 ahahah 22:05:34 pikhq, wait, isn't rcs single user too? 22:06:06 RCS is single *file*. 22:06:37 CVS is a monstrosity consisting of using RCS on multiple files. 22:06:38 -!- Gracenotes has joined. 22:06:44 hah 22:07:36 And as such lacks things like atomic commits. 22:10:39 SCCS 4tw! 22:10:44 looks like microsoft dropped it and replaced it 22:10:55 Gregor, I can one-up you here 22:11:05 Gregor, Genera's built in file versioning FTW! 22:11:16 (it only stores a limited number of older versions too!) 22:12:30 "Doright, I ordered you to recruit mounties!" "He's a mounty!" "He's my daughter!" 22:16:58 -!- zeotrope has quit (Quit: leaving). 22:17:32 Gregor, ? 22:17:47 Quoting non sequiturs = fun :P 22:20:28 alise__: I need some help, I think; Wooble is busy completely failing logic again in my paradox attempts (or in this case, a win-by-clout attempt that relies on a false-statement-implies-anything bug) 22:22:16 ais523, Wooble? 22:22:30 ais523, um, nomic? 22:22:36 Vorpal: yes 22:22:38 ah 22:24:50 ais523, it was a classical case of deduction. When you eliminated the gibberish, then whatever is left, no matter how nonsensical, must be the case. 22:26:17 ais523: herlo 22:27:39 hi 22:31:17 ais523: so how is a monad different from an extra parameter? 22:31:41 is it different because by default, a function cannot manipulate that extra parameter? 22:31:53 cheater99: well, things that aren't one-computation monads can't be implemented with just an extra param 22:32:01 you can't do Maybe like that without actually modifying the functions in question 22:32:16 mhm 22:32:17 an extra parameter plus some sort of systematic modification is one way to implement monads, incidentally 22:32:19 also IO monad 22:32:27 you can't do that as an extra parameter afaik 22:32:38 Vorpal: actually, GHC effectively implements IO as an extra-parameter monad 22:32:44 ais523, wow 22:33:05 after all, IO is designed for sequencing of operations wrt the real world 22:33:14 but if you break encapsulation to copy the actual parameter, it generally segfaults 22:33:33 so the point is, really, that the monads are encapsulated; you can't get at the parameter without using the monad 22:33:35 ais523, how can you get hold of the extra parameter 22:33:56 Vorpal: you need a standard library function, implemented with knowledge of the monad, to retrieve it for you 22:34:00 like get in the State monad 22:34:44 hm 22:35:00 ais523: i'll see what i can do 22:35:17 supporting my appeal would be nice 22:36:17 http://gopherwoodstudios.com/entanglement/ 22:36:20 this is awesome 22:37:09 ais523: you're playing nomic? 22:37:18 cheater99: yes... 22:37:25 cheater99: many people are since 1993 22:37:28 continuously 22:37:32 http://agoranomic.org/ 22:37:32 I'm a regular in ##nomic 22:37:37 and playing two nomcis atm 22:37:39 *two nomics 22:39:21 sweet 22:39:24 and? 22:39:32 what's the longest game you played? 22:39:44 agora is continuous 22:39:47 it has no beginning or end 22:39:51 and is the nomic ais523 is currently talking about 22:39:52 well 22:39:54 beginning is 13 22:39:56 but no end 22:40:10 *1993 22:40:12 agora has a beginning 22:40:16 it started in 1993, it's /still going/ 22:40:27 partly because the rules were modified to not end the game when someone wins 22:40:30 http://gopherwoodstudios.com/entanglement/ <-- fun and just js 22:40:33 :) 22:41:14 a nomic with no beginning or end would be impressive 22:41:17 having always existed 22:43:37 how do they keep it going? 22:43:43 pikhq, monotone is worse than rcs though 22:43:44 bullshit 22:43:55 monotone may not be the easiest system but it's very well thought-out 22:44:07 cheater99: they just keep playing 22:44:11 if someone wins, the game keeps going. no change 22:44:21 there are lulls sometimes, but normally there's something interesting happening 22:44:27 after all, you can always change the rules to shake things up... 22:44:36 Hey kid! 22:44:39 I'm a computer! 22:44:40 how do you win a nomic? 22:44:47 cheater99: ... 22:44:49 a joke, right? 22:44:49 via a win condition... 22:44:54 no 22:44:57 nomics have rules, same as any other games 22:44:59 quite obviously, "how do you win a nomic?" is an open question 22:44:59 i forgot 22:45:03 considering that the rules are *changable* 22:45:05 some of them will normally describe how to win 22:45:07 *changeable 22:45:20 if none of the rules specify a way to win, you can nevertheless win by changing the rules so there is a way to win, then using it 22:45:39 no reason to be prissy. i forgot the definition of nomic. 22:46:03 err, yet you were asking questions about how to keep them going? 22:46:04 -!- alise__ has changed nick to alise. 22:46:26 Alternatively, I would say that anybody who changes the rules of a nomic such that it no longer functions as a nomic can consider themselves to have won, even though technically they just stalemated :P 22:46:31 Vorpal: 58 22:46:36 ais523: btw, if you're interested in my schizophrenic OS ramblings there's #mitosis now, though you'd have to be mad to enter 22:46:36 yes 22:46:38 i was 22:46:51 Gregor: if anyone did that to Agora, several players would probably never speak to them again 22:47:15 alise: This is the /evil/ win, if you don't piss people off then you haven't really won :P 22:47:36 Gregor: people take the metagaming part of nomic /really/ seriously 22:47:39 you'd have most of the rest of the players migrating off to a new nomic 22:47:43 as in, you can cause havoc inside 22:47:44 probably with a rule banning you for life 22:47:48 but it's very personal to fuck with the nomic itself 22:47:56 hell, even ... omg what was his name ais523? 22:47:59 I've forgotten his name 22:48:07 the moo nomic 22:48:09 guy 22:48:14 I don't know of this 22:48:18 Gregor: This would be the rough equivalent of taking a bulk eraser to each computer with any file you were responsible for. 22:48:18 or if I did, have forgotten 22:48:26 or if I do know, haven't realised I do based on the available context 22:48:27 ais523: err, the famous scam 22:48:34 "go aestivate under a rock somewhere" 22:48:35 there've been tens of those 22:48:38 -!- GreaseMonkey has joined. 22:48:38 -!- GreaseMonkey has quit (Changing host). 22:48:38 -!- GreaseMonkey has joined. 22:48:39 ais523: the original nomicworld 22:48:39 AKA "no jury will convict". 22:48:41 hmm, oh in Nomic World? 22:48:43 the dictatorship scam 22:48:44 Lindrum 22:48:47 right! 22:48:59 Gregor: even Lindrum was disowned as a rotten person by a large number of people 22:49:09 and he just (probably didn't actually, but people didn't know that) scammed a dictatorship 22:49:14 it was still a nomic, technically 22:49:29 imposing a dictatorship on Agora isn't considered bad form if you give it up soon afterwards 22:49:38 people are more... forgiving of scams like that nowadays, but destroying Agora, a nomic that has existed since 1993... 22:49:38 leaving it as a playable nomic 22:49:43 would basically make people literally IRL hate you 22:49:53 Indeed, the results of that are still in the ruleset. 22:49:57 (the fountain) 22:50:04 pikhq: there have been more since. 22:50:07 ais523: Remember the planned outcome of The Scam? 22:50:14 pikhq: You haven't heard this one, I don't think -- you might like it -- 22:50:15 alise: Yeah, but the fountain is pretty lasting. 22:50:21 I'm still not sure if everyone agreed on that one 22:50:28 ais523: well, you didn't :-) 22:50:50 pikhq: The plan was that we were going to *revert the entire ruleset* back to the original, 1993 ruleset. For one week, I think. 22:50:55 and it was actually a pretty poor scam, given that comex managed to pull off a much simpler scam a few weeks later with the same effects 22:51:01 That is: Michael Norrish would *actually be the speaker*. 22:51:12 alise: Oh my dear goodness. 22:51:15 pikhq: Yes. :D 22:51:29 why is that nice 22:51:29 pikhq: Then it'd all go back to normal but with everyone permanently paranoid forevermore. 22:51:36 LMAO 22:51:39 alise: you couldn't force it back to norma 22:51:41 *normal 22:51:42 cheater99: nostalgia. tradition. Michael Norrish is busy doing actual mathematics and things like that 22:51:47 just propose to let it back to normal, and hope people voted FOR 22:51:49 so he very rarely posts 22:51:53 and when he does it's in the discussion forum 22:51:57 so he would not be talking at all during that week? 22:52:08 *speaking at all? 22:52:10 cheater99: the idea was that we'd ask him to participate, if he didn't mind (and make someone else the speaker if he did mind) 22:52:14 I'm sure he'd turn up if the future of Agora depended on it 22:52:16 (by changing the ruleset) 22:52:22 -!- tombom has quit (Quit: Leaving). 22:52:23 ais523: heh 22:52:28 "No, I like this ruleset. It's simpler!" 22:52:34 just like happened in A and B on occasion 22:52:41 63 22:52:51 ais523: He's still an observer IIRC. 22:52:52 nooga: 4 22:53:02 pikhq: his last post was saying that spivak pronouns suck, iirc 22:53:08 Mmmf. 22:53:13 pikhq: yes, and in practice not just in theory 22:53:14 and saying they were introduced sometime and he'd have no problem with singular they personally 22:53:19 he rarely says anything, but rarely != never 22:53:24 (introduced sometime = not in the original ruleset) 22:55:07 ais523: ok, i'll support that appeal now 22:55:18 pikhq: I will now install XPe in a VM. 22:55:52 pikhq: μχπ; guess the pun! 22:56:33 what is this weird game of nomic? 22:57:12 alise: *groan* 22:57:12 nooga: weird? 22:57:19 Agora is pretty much the canonical nomic... 22:57:25 pikhq: Yes, indeed, "muchipi"; how hilarious! 22:57:36 http://f.cl.ly/items/a59396292a55e230ac03/2559.gif 22:57:37 alise: MuXP 22:57:46 * pikhq groaneth 22:57:47 just realised you guys might appreciate this 22:57:57 pikhq: MicroXP; close enough. 22:58:15 the thing is that... nomic is weird itself 22:58:18 -!- Phantom_Hoover has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds). 22:58:30 i couldn't even find an explanation how to play it 22:58:38 nooga: That's because it varies. 22:58:40 "Math is the box of the Johnsons." 22:58:43 nooga: err 22:58:50 nomic is just any game where you can change the rules 22:58:52 nooga: The defining aspect of a nomic is that the rules are mutable. 22:58:55 or rather, any game where that is a large activity 22:59:00 nooga: for instance, here is a starting nomic ruleset 22:59:08 Rule 1. The rules can be changed with the consent of all players. 22:59:12 why is there no adjective form of holland? 22:59:13 that's the purest kind of nomic 22:59:16 cheater99: Dutch? 22:59:31 alise: you need some way to tell who's a player or not; either a rule, or a meta-agreement 22:59:42 ais523: that's for the Netherlands 22:59:51 ais523: meta-agreement should suffcie 22:59:52 *suffice 22:59:52 hmm, ok 22:59:56 generally, it's obvious who's playing a game 22:59:59 people tend to use the adjective interchangeably for the two 23:00:00 ais523: For the 1-rule nomic, it's a meta-agreement. At least until things are defined. 23:00:03 pikhq: XPe install go! 23:00:05 yes but it's not from "holland" 23:00:09 alise: Whoooo. 23:00:15 alise: ah, like in a democracy 23:00:22 alise: If you can has success, I may have to set up an XPe image here. 23:00:26 http://f.cl.ly/items/a59396292a55e230ac03/2559.gif <-- heh... kind of 23:00:29 nooga: Nomic /is/ democracy; or at least, anything that can be called nomic more than vaguely 23:00:37 it was invented by Peter Suber in a book about law 23:00:40 alise: Well, there's royal nomics. 23:00:42 to study the philosophy of law 23:00:46 pikhq: which are only technically nomics :P 23:00:49 Where a king gives assent to rules. 23:00:55 pikhq: I have a link to an XPe + SP2 torrent. 23:01:00 The Netherlands in its entirety is often referred to as Holland 23:01:05 alise: Link; I'll download in a bit. 23:01:06 see that's confusing 23:01:12 holland/netherlands/dutch 23:01:22 cheater99: that is totally wrong, though 23:01:28 three different words to describe the same shitty little worthless country 23:01:35 pikhq: http://www.torrentz.com/6c0dc08d5af0aa2249da7b66d027e1819518af2c 23:01:42 alise: holland is the official name of the netherlands in polish, for example. 23:01:46 we need semantic URI permalinks for torrents 23:01:51 to avoid linking to a particular tracker 23:01:55 I wonder if DHT could help there 23:02:00 magnet? 23:02:07 i think those specify a tracker 23:02:16 dunno 23:02:22 pretty sure they do 23:02:34 pikhq: CD 1, 2 or 3? I guess 1. 23:02:41 It's the smallest though. :P 23:03:05 pikhq, you linked to a torrent on irc? that isn't done 23:03:07 err 23:03:08 alise, ^ 23:03:10 ... 23:03:13 Vorpal: ... 23:03:15 you tell people to google 23:03:16 it's only not done in your fantasy world 23:03:18 you don't link 23:03:19 no, i don't 23:03:21 only irritating people do that 23:03:30 alise, well for torrents... 23:03:33 but please, show me the baby i killed and i'll repent. 23:03:39 pikhq: Preinstallation environment! Fuck yeah! 23:03:46 ahah 23:03:47 66 23:03:50 i want 75 23:03:53 pikhq: Wait, how do I use the preinstallation environment? 23:04:05 alise, screenshot of it 23:04:23 Vorpal: imagine the blue-mountain-with-moon background of XP, plus a command window opened to X:\i386\system32 23:04:28 with a disclaimer at the top saying you agree to the EULA if you continue 23:04:30 that's it 23:04:38 alise, how boring 23:04:51 alise, I would have expected something fun 23:05:05 alise, with at least *one* big red button 23:05:35 i would have expected a blank screen 23:05:43 pikhq: ...Idiotic idea approaching: Windows PE: The Distribution 23:05:43 with a non-blinking block cursor 23:05:54 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/WinPE2005.png ;; well, this is a start 23:05:56 starting out in the top left. 23:08:05 wow 23:08:17 do i have to read all of 6840 rules to play agora? 23:08:29 -!- sftp has quit (Remote host closed the connection). 23:08:39 nooga: there aren't that many rules 23:08:42 the rule numbers skip numbers 23:08:45 nooga: there aren't even close to that many rules :P 23:08:54 nooga: read comex's fancy SLR 23:08:57 alise: this seems to be a common misapprehension, maybe 23:09:08 I think my Website Submission clears it up, but it might not 23:09:18 hmm, where's comex's thing? 23:09:19 with the mouseovers 23:09:23 night → 23:10:34 pikhq: wait, didn't you take part in the fountain? 23:11:13 alise: ?annotate=1 on the HTML FLR, IIRC 23:11:16 and Canada's gun registry will survive 23:11:34 nooga: http://agora.qoid.us/current_flr.html?annotate=1 23:11:36 after a 153-151 vote in the House of Commons 23:11:42 hover over things to get something that's probably accurate 23:12:01 nooga: http://agora.qoid.us/shalls.txt 23:12:04 here's stuff you have to do. 23:12:36 nooga: also, don't say anything about rule 104; just don't 23:13:34 pikhq: I propose that lo, MicroXP shall be amazing. 23:14:22 If anyone installs Windows 95 into a VM and extracts explorer.exe, I will be forever in their debt. 23:14:26 anyways, i'm leaving, cya 23:14:27 (Note: Forever = five minutes.) 23:14:30 GreaseMonkey: bye 23:14:47 -!- GreaseMonkey has quit (Remote host closed the connection). 23:16:26 could you, say, attempt to change the Agora's official language 23:16:28 ? 23:17:35 yes, although it probably wouldn't pass 23:17:42 you can propose anything, it's up to the other players to vote on it 23:18:07 to... http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ænglisc_sprǣc 23:18:18 nooga: yes, but nobody would vote on it. 23:18:28 well 23:18:30 nobody would vote for it, rather 23:18:35 apart from me and comex 23:19:11 þǣre 23:20:27 pikhq: err okay, seirously, do you know how to use WinPE? :D 23:21:00 aha 23:21:02 \setup 23:23:31 nope 23:24:08 pikhq: mission report so far: can't find the damn setup :) 23:25:27 alise: The fountain predates me. 23:25:42 Or DOES it 23:26:19 alise: WinPE is just a Windows boot disk. 23:26:23 pikhq: Indeed. 23:26:29 pikhq: It's also all XPe has in the way of installation. 23:26:35 Apparently I have to copy some directory over then run some thing then reboot. 23:26:39 I cannot find the directory. 23:27:57 alise: Find & run setup.exe 23:28:06 couldn't sleep, so here is an intel CPU (sorry for the flood): 23:28:07 ╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮ 23:28:07 ╭╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╮ 23:28:07 │ D8086-2 │ 23:28:07 │ L7010276 (c) INTEL '78 '84 │ 23:28:08 ╰╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╮╭╯ 23:28:13 ╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯╰╯ 23:28:20 (markings mostly correct) 23:28:26 And you complain about me flooding. 23:28:29 pikhq: not that simple, actually 23:28:35 setup.exe is just a guide to WinPE, pretty much 23:28:39 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/28255-how-to-use-winpe-for-network-unattend-install/ 23:28:49 maybe i'm wrong 23:28:52 alise, of course, but if you flooded unicode art of 8086 I would forgive you 23:28:57 Urgh. 23:29:04 pikhq: it may be on one of the three disks 23:29:10 pikhq: here, you download it, i'm not suffering alone :P 23:29:24 your pay shall be: a FREE copy of MicroXP! 23:29:43 And that gift is even more important than friendship. 23:29:45 Oh, so it seems that you need to run it on a copy of XP to build images. 23:29:56 But this /is/ the entire XPe distribution; 23:29:58 *distribution. 23:30:00 It has *three disks*. 23:30:03 XP, not XPe. 23:30:22 pikhq: Right. 23:30:27 But I doubt you need XP. 23:30:29 To install XPe. 23:30:33 That's ridiculous. 23:30:40 It's three effin' disks! They must have an installer! 23:30:48 You need XP to create the custom XPe images that you install. 23:30:56 pikhq: What about a ... non-custom ... XPe... image... 23:31:00 It is apparently not sanely designed. 23:31:03 alise: It's all custom. 23:31:19 Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha pikhq: your job is to make an image 23:35:33 pikhq: So how much of a pain is making an image? 23:36:02 alise: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms940811.aspx 23:36:19 Most of that is installing the image maker. 23:36:20 pikhq: Suicide pact? 23:38:39 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT1IGy_AGgQ The pizza smoothie was Obama's idea. 23:38:43 (Seriously what?) 23:40:50 pikhq: Hypothesis: Windows XP Embedded clearly can't remove that much more than a regular installation with nLite! 23:40:54 Therefore project aborted NEVER SPEAK OF IT AGAIN 23:40:58 * pikhq looks for an unhacked copy of Windows XP. 23:41:00 Why, you ask? 23:41:10 I happen to have an XP license and no disc. 23:43:17 Hrm, wait. That has activation attached. 23:43:22 Screw that shit. 23:43:53 pikhq: Yeah, just use the pirated version. 23:44:00 Fun fact: A single XP key can only be activated, I think, five times! 23:44:28 XP fucks you over one too many times? You gotta reinstall? Maybe you want to make a legal VM on your shiny new Ubuntu Macintosh Optimus Prime Transformers Robots In Disguise? 23:44:32 WHOOPS NO SORRY LOL YOU HAVE TO PHONE MICROSOFT 23:45:09 Five? I thought it was three. 23:45:13 pikhq: Most cracked XP discs are just the regular XP disc with a cracking program to be used in Safe Mode included in the root of the disc. 23:45:16 Gregor: Hmm, possibly. 23:46:49 Oh, wait, I've got a corporate edition disc still here, I think. 23:46:51 \o/ 23:47:12 -!- BeholdMyGlory has quit (Remote host closed the connection). 23:47:37 lol 23:47:50 ... But, that one had something odd about it. :/ 23:48:18 28 of 80 ppl on my year failed "basics of programming" course 23:48:29 Only 28? 23:48:46 and only one with the best grade possible is.... me :F 23:48:51 -!- ais523 has changed nick to ais523_. 23:48:51 Gah, which is that pirate XP variant with the Win95 explorer? 23:48:54 -!- ais523_ has changed nick to ais523. 23:49:29 -!- Sgeo has joined. 23:49:33 * pikhq is going to try & find a plain XP disk and a nice, illegal key for the sake of nLiteing right 23:51:18 pikhq: Hey, I've monopolised that industry. 23:51:28 that means at least two things: students are idiots, teachers can't teach 23:51:33 pikhq: I WILL PUT YOU OUT OF BUSINESS WITH TOTAL IE REMOVAL 23:51:46 The words "Internet Explorer" will even be removed from the manual! 23:52:14 what will you replace them with? 23:53:21 alise: I'll do you one better. Windows 2000: the last version of Windows without obnoxious bloat. 23:53:24 :P 23:54:00 pikhq: Ha ha ha. You mean Windows 95. 23:54:05 ais523: Nothing! That saves disk space! 23:54:24 alise: Okay, okay. But there's not a free tool for trimming that down. 23:54:27 ;f 23:54:35 "- Browse the internet with , Microsoft's premier web browser." 23:54:42 pikhq: It doesn't need trimming down. 23:54:57 YES IT DOES I SAID SO 23:55:03 pikhq: Ever used 95? 23:55:07 Yes. 23:55:14 pikhq: For extended periods of time? 23:55:33 Yes; it was the OS on my computer before I started using Linux. 23:56:17 uhuh 23:56:32 pikhq: When was that? 23:56:50 i don't know why anyone decides to use windows nowadays 23:57:26 when macs are relatively cheap and linux distros are so cool 23:58:01 i think the thing is... many ppl don't decide, they just get a computer with something installed 23:58:05 alise: Well, the first system we had with 95 was obtained in '96... I had been using an old POS system with 95 until about 2001, though. 23:58:23 * Sgeo has used Windows ME for extended periods of time... 23:58:40 Sgeo: I have too; liquefied pain. 23:58:51 pikhq: Without the IE update that converted explorer.exe to IE, I hope. 23:59:13 alise: Came out of the box that way. OSR2. 23:59:57 pikhq: Blech, vomit, puke, stomp on.