IRC log of swhack on 2001-09-09

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topic is: Are YOU a sequence-and-hierarchy chauvinist?
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Users on #swhack: logster AaronSw deltab
01:50:28 [AaronSw]
AaronSw has changed the topic to: HAPPY BILLENNIUM!!!!!!!!!
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.translate
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oops, xena isn't here... shoot
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03:40:08 [AaronSw]
Hi there.
03:40:16 [AaronSw]
You missed the Billennium...
03:40:17 [sbp]
Hi
03:40:27 [sbp]
did I?
03:40:48 [AaronSw]
Yeah, we had a great party.
03:40:59 [AaronSw]
There are logs of course.
03:41:00 [sbp]
Neat. Did you have fun?
03:41:11 [sbp]
Ooooh, where?
03:41:22 [AaronSw]
http://www.sixxs.net/misc/billennium.log
03:41:26 [AaronSw]
We had a lot of fun.
03:42:45 [sbp]
O.K., this has gone on far enough
03:43:05 [sbp]
What is the Billennium?
03:43:27 [AaronSw]
You know how UNIX counts in seconds since the "epoch"?
03:43:35 [sbp]
nope
03:43:46 [AaronSw]
well it does
03:43:48 [AaronSw]
:)
03:44:00 [AaronSw]
The time hit 1000000000.
03:44:09 [sbp]
Oooooh, neat
03:44:54 [sbp]
And I missed it? What a bugger
03:45:01 [AaronSw]
So did Gerald.
03:45:06 [sbp]
Heh, heh
03:45:21 [sbp]
When was it, western time (or relative time)
03:45:55 [AaronSw]
7113 seconds ago
03:46:02 [AaronSw]
-7249
03:46:11 [AaronSw]
perl -e '$|=1; for(;;){ printf "%10d %5d" => time, 1_000_000_000 - time; sleep 1; print "\b"x16}'
03:49:44 [sbp]
* sbp types "<sbp> Oh crap, did I miss it?" into #billennium
03:50:55 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw types <AaronSw> lol
03:51:02 [sbp]
lol! I love the countdown
03:51:23 [sbp]
41, 20, 57, 35, 38 (all from different people)
03:51:42 [AaronSw]
It was going really fast.
03:52:02 [AaronSw]
http://www.linuxpower.cx/~greg/bill.jpg
03:52:09 [AaronSw]
Imagine all that typing in a clock tick
03:52:52 [sbp]
blimey...
03:53:41 [sbp]
ah, at the time, I was probably watching an Iridium Flare
03:53:59 [AaronSw]
Iridium Flare?!
03:54:24 [sbp]
yeah... do a Google search
03:54:36 [AaronSw]
Unrelated to the Iridium satellites I assume?
03:55:01 [AaronSw]
Oh, they are the Iridium satellites.
03:55:05 [AaronSw]
Cool
03:55:13 [sbp]
:-)
03:55:20 [sbp]
Iridium 31, mag: -2
03:56:27 [AaronSw]
very cool
03:56:31 [sbp]
where are the #swhack logs?
03:57:09 [sbp]
yo, Aaron!
03:57:16 [AaronSw]
http://www.blogspace.com/swhack/chatlogs/
03:57:31 [sbp]
cheers
03:58:02 [sbp]
can you give me the exact UNIX time now?
03:58:32 [AaronSw]
just a sec
03:58:40 [sbp]
yes please
03:58:56 [AaronSw]
1000008024
03:59:07 [AaronSw]
(approximately)
03:59:11 [sbp]
cheers
04:00:25 [sbp]
so when did it start counting from?
04:00:36 [AaronSw]
Fray day 5 is on now http://64.152.82.196:24566
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1970 something or other
04:01:05 [deltab]
1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
04:01:24 [sbp]
* sbp can't get Fray day 5
04:01:25 [AaronSw]
http://www.clueless.com/jargon3.0.0/epoch.html
04:01:30 [sbp]
oh, hi deltab :-)
04:02:44 [AaronSw]
Fray: Oh well, it's pretty funny.
04:06:34 [AaronSw]
http://fray.org/5/
04:14:51 [sbp]
* sbp wonders why tick and tock don't work
04:15:48 [AaronSw]
eh?
04:18:30 [sbp]
the USNO NTP servers
04:19:23 [AaronSw]
hmm
04:21:46 [sbp]
Aha, it works now (I'm using tock)
04:22:19 [AaronSw]
"Fiction is just personal storytelling with training wheels."
04:22:25 [AaronSw]
- http://www.citystories.com/about/
04:22:56 [AaronSw]
(Derek Powazek, I assume.)
04:22:57 [sbp]
I agree
04:30:13 [AaronSw]
Now I just need to find the RSA patent expiration song...
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* sbp still searches for a good NTP client
04:31:17 [deltab]
I like sntpclock
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(part of the clockspeed package)
04:33:02 [AaronSw]
Aha, the song! http://www.cryptorights.org/events/img/source/13.html
04:33:09 [AaronSw]
(sorta)
04:33:47 [AaronSw]
Oh, here we go: http://www.cryptorights.org/events/superpolynomial.html
04:41:51 [sbp]
How long 'till the patent runs out?
04:42:12 [AaronSw]
It ran out a while back. Last year I think.
04:42:21 [sbp]
Oh, neat
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* sbp find TIC to be quite good, and it uses USNO Tock
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Gotta run
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c'ya
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bye
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tav is in, tav is out, tav is in, tav is out.
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hi
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hi tav
19:29:07 [AaronSw]
When's xena coming back?
19:57:13 [tav]
when a certain bug with fds is fixed
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fds?
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file descriptors
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AaronSw: are you still 14 / 15 ?
20:12:50 [AaronSw]
yes, why do you ask?
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i was just very impressed
20:14:58 [AaronSw]
ahh.... thanks ;-)
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asian background?
20:15:44 [AaronSw]
me? no...
20:17:01 [tav]
you don't look caucassian...
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.spell caucassian
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gah
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i don't?
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perhaps not in a doorknob...
20:19:42 [AaronSw]
Here's a better one: http://blogspace.com/pictures/photo-view?photo_id=4282
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ted nelson and douglas englebart
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wow indeed!
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heh
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F**k you.
21:49:09 [AaronSw]
Oh, hello.
21:49:27 [AaronSw]
I was just thinking about you, sbp. ;-)
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AaronSw has changed the topic to: Home of Sean B.A. Palmer
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pfft
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hello again
21:54:13 [AaronSw]
it appears that sbp has left the building
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no, I'm here
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Hi!
21:54:29 [sbp]
I was just looking into the geopriv group
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blargh
21:54:33 [AaronSw]
Aha.
21:54:49 [AaronSw]
You missed my great intro last time, better check the logs.
21:54:49 [sbp]
I'm just about to mail the list...
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* sbp checks the logs
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lol!
21:55:57 [sbp]
grmph, you can take that "A" out of my name
21:56:25 [AaronSw]
AaronSw has changed the topic to: Home of Sean B. (not A.) Palmer
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* sbp sends a mail t the geopriv group, CC to www-archive
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s/t/to
21:57:45 [AaronSw]
Aha, GLD=Global Learning Day.
21:58:01 [AaronSw]
Ooh, here's an interesting error!
21:58:02 [AaronSw]
404 Address family not supported by protocol family
21:58:26 [sbp]
where'd you get that?
21:58:31 [deltab]
how is that 404?
21:58:42 [AaronSw]
Try visiting http://www.bfranklin.edu/gld5 for me
21:59:12 [sbp]
yeah, it's fine
21:59:26 [AaronSw]
How odd... it seems to have fixed itself.
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* AaronSw wonders whn danbri will finsih playing myst and turn his server back on...
22:02:17 [AaronSw]
Hehe: "URI schemes should not be invented on a whim, so it's a little bit embarassing really, but I've done it so much, it could almost be considered a hobby of mine now!", SBP
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..."Interestingly, not one of my schemes has ever been registered, 'cause many of them are pretty awful."
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hey! I didn't write that... ahem
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Aw...
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I thought I'd cracked with "geo", but perhaps not
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Hmm, NTP URIs...
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Not sure about the use.
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LOL, urn-musical-note
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Oh, dear... urn-simpsons
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If you have an NTP client, you can try out people's new servers... it's quicker than saying "type in xxx in your NTP client"
22:04:55 [sbp]
urn-musical-note is quite a cool one, but it got a bit complicated
22:05:15 [AaronSw]
But in what context would you be trading NTP servers where the user didn't know it was an NTP server?
22:05:35 [AaronSw]
Hmm, I don't remember you mentioning etag...
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search your mail archives, that's how I found it!
22:06:03 [AaronSw]
musical notes might be better as RDF vocabs
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probably
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but they're pretty universal... I just liked this idea:-
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[[[
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Perhaps by activiating a link to such a URN, a musical note could
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be played. In that way, crude HyperText instruments could be formed.
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]]]
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just a laugh
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Next you're going to tell me that we need urn:rose... "A rose by any other name would not be as persistent"
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HyperText instruments -- right there with the coffee pots!
22:07:08 [sbp]
why not? Yuo could have one for rose names. They are officially registered
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yes!
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* sbp looks up rose name registration processes
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aha: http://www.actahort.org/books/182/182_32.htm
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interesting
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sbp has changed the topic to: Everyone knows that I'm what makes this channel great - AaronSw
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Huh?
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Let me explain...
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it was "home of Sean B. Palmer", so I thought I'd put "I'm what makes this channel great"
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but! That would have made me sound like an egotistical (but still very bery cool) dude, and I'm not
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So I blamed it on you instead
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See, but home of SBP is true!
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I never claimed such an ego thing.
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AaronSw has changed the topic to: Everyone knows that I'm what makes this channel great - SBP
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sbp has changed the topic to: "Everyone knows that I'm what makes this channel great - SBP" - AaronSw
22:14:28 [AaronSw]
AaronSw has changed the topic to: '"Everyone knows that I'm what makes this channel great - SBP" - AaronSw' - SBP
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sbp has changed the topic to: "'"Everyone knows that I'm what makes this channel great - SBP" - AaronSw' - SBP" - AaronSw
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AaronSw has changed the topic to: Anything you can do, I can do meta!
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sbp has changed the topic to: I can do anything meta than you!
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:-)
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AaronSw has changed the topic to: No you can't!
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:-)
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sbp has changed the topic to: Yes I can!
22:16:02 [sbp]
Wasn't that by Sammy Davis Jr.?
22:16:14 [AaronSw]
Irving Berlin, I think
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http://das-www.harvard.edu/users/students/Rebecca_Hwa/lyrics/berlin.html
22:16:55 [sbp]
No, I mean "Yes I can!"
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http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Yes+I+can%22+%22Sammy+Davis+Jr.%22
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AaronSw has changed the topic to: Swartz is the first Aaron on Google. Palmer is the 43rd Sean.
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sbp has changed the topic to: Home of the Berlin/Davis appreciation society
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Oh, piss
22:19:07 [AaronSw]
You're right behind "the faces of sean bean"!
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AaronSw has changed the topic to: Real hackers have breakfast at 6PM
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At least Gerald does. ;-)
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sbp has changed the topic to: Real hackers go to bed at 6PM
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At least I do :-)
22:21:52 [AaronSw]
I went to bed at like 3AM last night... listening to Fray Day 5 SF.
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Silly time differences.
22:22:16 [sbp]
Yep
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She was a working girl
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North of England way
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Now she's hit the big time
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In the U.S.A.
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And if she could only hear me
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This is what I'd say
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(doo-ooh)
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Honey pie
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You are making me crazy
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I'm in love but I'm lazy
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So won't you please come home
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AaronSw has changed the topic to: Breakfast, Beatles, and Berlin
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Alright, gotta run.
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O.K., c'ya!
22:23:47 [AaronSw]
Gonna see a movie, I guess.
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Bye!
22:24:01 [sbp]
cool!
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c'ya
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