00:00:18 Oh, are we still playing _that_ game. 00:00:30 yes 00:00:32 it took me a bit to find the character of dread 00:00:45 ah, the forbidden ewe... yes 00:00:51 brb 00:02:56 we ticked each other's giggly bones for a long period 00:03:54 my "dodo" comment was probably the best bit... man, that was chortle-inspiring 00:04:08 heheh, i will keep on with my looking 00:04:26 yes, or reviewing, perhaps? 00:05:27 indeed 00:09:40 Heheh, this game is has much hilarity! 00:11:37 Aha, you cannot say the name of the identifier of choice! 00:16:41 my reviewing is finished 00:17:01 however, a paste of log was sorely lacking 00:18:15 sbp? 00:20:35 aaaaargh:- 00:20:36 Content-type: text/html 00:20:40 Content-Type: application/octet-stream 00:20:42 from where? 00:20:46 how odd 00:20:47 in the same header! from one of my pages 00:21:01 aaah! 00:23:01 yes... I'm trying to work on serving pages sans file extension as text/html 00:23:13 Oh. 00:23:19 Capitalize the T in Type, please 00:27:17 well, it doesn't matter anyway: I can't serve a file with two MIME types... 00:28:39 Ooh, new Invader Zim 00:29:51 Content-Type: text/html 00:29:55 Content-Type: application/octet-stream 00:30:02 didn't work... 00:30:04 Heh 00:30:32 * sbp wonders how many browsers barf on that, and which val. is taken 00:32:12 links displays the first one but uses the second 00:32:35 pardon? 00:32:55 it even warns me of it: D\x75plicate header Content-Type 00:33:00 UTF-8 RSS stress test: http://home.no.net/huftis/kritikk/stress.xml 00:33:15 * AaronSw apologizes 00:33:22 grrrrr 00:34:21 sorry, still i needed it for later grepping and retrieval 00:34:30 else i'd have forgotten 00:34:38 fine 00:34:47 when I enter that, I get asked what to do with an application/octet-stream; however, when I enter header display commands I only see the first 00:35:01 i.e. text/html 00:35:07 Hmm... that's pretty weird 00:35:35 still, I can't really employ that method if people find it broken 00:35:59 oops, there were other headers in between; both appear 00:36:08 ah 00:36:34 well, IE6 takes the former Content-Type, for some reason 00:36:47 * sbp tries Mozilla 00:37:20 Mozilla takes it as an octet stream 00:38:06 shame is, IIS won't let one associate a MIME type with files of no extension 00:38:11 certain of that? IE tends to ignore Content-Type, preferring its own method 00:38:31 yeah, that's what it did! 00:38:48 it sniffs HTML... 00:39:26 so the latter is almost certainly the recommended val... now if only it'd append the new Content-Type header, eh? 00:39:46 rather than shoving it in at the top... 00:40:17 ASP lets one send a file as any MIME type properly... however, ASP files req. a .asp extension! 00:40:47 what an arse 00:41:12 and there's not even Apache style extension hacking, or .htaccess to play with 00:43:37 Heh: it might be possible to set the 404 error page to redirect 2 a .html file 00:43:41 whee! only 206 messages left after first pass 00:44:27 Hmm... that's a good idea... I'm gonna try it 00:44:52 or ya might switch to a _real_ webserver ;) 00:53:19 JWZ on T-Shirts: "I really like the DNA Lounge logo, don't you? I'll make you a deal: you pay us, and we'll let you advertise for us. How does that sound?" 00:53:34 i'm safe becuz it's in "s 00:53:47 hey! 00:54:13 s/\x75/\\x75 00:54:22 Heheh 00:54:23 the 404 redirect didn't work 00:54:33 i'm tired of this game 00:56:21 it's exha_sting 00:57:13 aha! I've got something working! yay! 00:59:23 s/working/nearly working 01:00:44 heh, heh: got it 01:01:03 the redirect deeley? 01:01:25 it's a weird way of doing it... 01:01:32 it's not redirecting, it's server side proper now 01:01:53 I get it to map the 404 error to an absol. *RI on the server 01:02:10 then, I take the q*ery string passed to it, and feck abo*t with it a bit 01:02:15 and then it seems to work 01:22:09 the problem is, I want to *se this as an persistence mechanism, and yet it's s*ch a fragile system 01:22:36 * sbp is doing m*ch * cheating 01:23:33 * sbp grows weary of the game too 01:23:52 Dare I utter the forbidden character? 01:24:01 oh, I just did 01:24:04 yes 01:26:19 ugh, "u" has such understated futility, I wunder if it's wurth using it again? utterly unsane 01:26:38 undies! I can say undies again! 01:26:46 ah, wonderful 01:27:00 I'd be more for getting rid of c -- you can repace it with k or s 01:28:04 yeah, I'd go for that 01:28:11 what's the escape for it? 01:28:22 see 01:28:49 oops 01:28:50 hmm, what about schair? 01:28:58 oops 01:29:01 I meant shair 01:29:05 I meant, what's the eskape for it? 01:29:18 no! you meant tyair 01:29:35 or tyeah! 01:29:39 that's pretty awful 01:29:44 'tis 01:30:32 what about "x"? 01:30:53 lol @ http://rdfweb.org/people/danbri/2001/04/sw-context 01:30:58 xhair? 01:31:08 oops, i meant lol @ but == bit in en-NZ 01:31:11 no I mean, using the letter x in our funny little game 01:31:20 heh, heh 01:31:26 it's a fine letter 01:31:35 yes, it is a fine letter 01:31:43 but is it a fine letter to use in the game? 01:32:03 is it? it is! is "it"? dunno 01:33:05 we'd have problems discussing xylophone techniques 01:33:26 but not tshairs 01:33:39 hmm, XML et al. 01:33:42 we could use both 01:33:56 XML? We don't talk about that here! 01:34:41 or any of the others alluded to with your "et al." 01:35:45 yes you do 01:36:06 no we don't 01:36:15 193903Z dc:title "XHTMLTM 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language 01:36:27 ah, that was an isolated case 01:36:33 *three* Xes there 01:36:42 lol 01:36:45 but I was quoting 01:38:00 233626Z * >sbp #swhack goes on a little "don't embed XML RDF into XHTML!" spree, on w-v 01:38:08 quoting there too, I see :-) 01:38:33 yes. As I usually say, "I'm always quoting someone or other" 01:38:37 Homer: Come on kids, let's go home 01:38:40 Bart: We are home! 01:38:44 Homer: That was quick 01:38:54 lol 01:39:37 file extensions 01:39:58 file stentions? what about them? 01:40:14 O.K., you got me there 01:40:34 So deltab, how do I get a custom IRC vhost? 01:41:12 Gotta run 01:41:15 sbp has quit 01:41:18 bye 01:41:21 need to write to XO :-( 01:42:02 Hmm... I've got a class C block floating around somewhere... wonder if I could use that 01:42:19 so let's say I get the rDNS working -- how do I IRC out of it? 01:42:35 oh, just tell your irc program to use it 01:43:21 Huh? 01:43:43 wouldn't that require my machine's network card was bound to that IP? 01:43:48 sbp has joined #swhack 01:44:03 wb 01:44:06 oops, I meant:- 01:44:08 Homer: That was fast 01:44:10 tsk, tsk 01:44:12 Homer: Wellity, wellity, wellity 01:44:16 AaronSw: yes 01:44:16 ty 01:44:18 c'ya 01:44:18 sbp has quit 01:44:31 that was fast ;) 01:44:52 deltab, so what if it isn't? can I ssh tunnel or something? 01:45:27 uh, you need to be able to open a connection from the IP address 01:45:52 so it does need to be bound to an interface 01:46:08 I know, but can I bind it to an interface on some other machine 01:46:15 yes 01:46:19 and then ssh tunnel to that machine... does ssh go out of the same interface it comes in on? 01:46:30 yes... 01:46:53 ah, that's cool 01:47:00 not sure what you mean about a tunnel 01:47:22 I'm accessing my irc client through ssh 01:47:29 ssh -L 6667:irc.openprojects.net aswartz@foo.bar.com 01:47:48 hmm 01:48:16 Yeah, can't really run the client via ssh on my mac 01:48:42 ah, then you need an irc bouncer 01:48:54 what's that do? 01:49:06 bounces irc :-) 01:49:22 Ooh, will that hold a connection open for me and let me connect into it from various places? 01:49:37 irc client <--> bouncer <--> server 01:49:38 will it load backlog into my IRC client? 01:49:44 can do 01:49:53 That's awesome! Where can I get one of those? 01:50:00 I've always wanted that. 01:50:01 blazingfast.net :-) 01:50:22 oh, come on, we're friends 01:50:36 seriously 01:50:50 run muh 01:52:48 you'll need to modify a copy of muhrc 01:53:02 * AaronSw tries to think of where to install it... 01:53:25 ? 01:53:31 I've already installed it 01:53:43 you just need to configure and run it 01:53:59 Oh, just off of espnow.com, then 02:01:58 Hmm, so how do I connect to this? 02:02:28 Aaron has joined #swhack 02:02:38 hehe 02:03:02 How do I access channels on another server? 02:03:24 run another muh 02:03:56 ahh... and just copy my muhrc? 02:04:38 yes - you need another dir for it 02:05:07 muh -d ~/muh/opn 02:05:11 something like that 02:05:34 Aaron has quit 02:06:09 sbp has joined #swhack 02:06:16 Hmm, it only logs private messages, doesn't it? 02:07:18 um 02:07:33 I mean those that aren't sent to a channel 02:08:12 yeah, I understood 02:08:25 do you have logging = true? 02:08:29 yep 02:08:37 err, no -- just the default 02:08:53 default is false 02:08:56 * (default true) 02:09:01 ? 02:09:10 ohh 02:09:13 oops 02:09:46 sbp has changed the topic to: #swhack: home of the tired and pissed off SBP 02:09:59 what's POed you, sbp? 02:10:09 this is your home? 02:10:24 there's a Grand Prix on tonight! I almost forget, could you believe 02:10:38 and now I've got to stay up to watch it... I had wanted to go to bed early 02:10:58 haha, crazy GP watcher 02:13:03 detlab, you're here too thought, aren't you? seems like you're staying up to watch it too :-) 02:13:15 Aaron has joined #swhack 02:13:28 hi aaron 02:13:31 Hi there 02:13:36 Nice to meet you. 02:13:40 Same here. 02:13:44 I have to step out for a bit, do you mind? 02:13:47 Not at all 02:13:51 Okedoke -- see you soon. 02:13:56 * Aaron is leaving... 02:14:13 * Aaron is leaving... 02:14:25 * AaronSw says secret evil stuff in the meantime 02:14:26 mwahaha 02:14:34 haha 02:14:36 Hello again 02:14:45 Hmm, it did not log that stuff. 02:14:55 What stuff? 02:14:59 The secret evil stuff. 02:15:04 no, I guess it can't 02:15:04 I have no idea what you're talking about. 02:15:09 he knows what stuff... 02:15:10 Never mind. 02:15:20 deltab, do you know of anything that does? 02:15:54 I think greaper's setting up something more advanced, which might 02:16:10 or you could run a client 02:16:22 I'm imagining something which, when I connect, spews out all the stuff I've missed into my client. 02:16:31 so I can then scroll up and read it. 02:16:31 * deltab nods 02:17:00 ooh: mewtwo.espnow.com 02:17:34 * Aaron waves from the ESP empire ;) 02:18:26 hmm, ezbounce seems to support it: 02:18:35 "Logging private and channel messages while detached" 02:19:13 http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:druglord.freelsd.org/ezbounce/ 02:19:35 but their host went bankrupt :( 02:20:10 due to the war on drugs? :-) 02:20:24 heheh 02:22:44 Hmm, ezbounce looks much more difficult to use 02:23:25 and it seems to log only to files... 02:24:06 it can dcc them to you, tho 02:24:30 Aaron has left #swhack 02:27:36 any ideas, deltab? 02:28:22 Ahh, cool! dircproxy looks like ti does it 02:28:29 Log text recalled to your client is sent so your client sees 02:28:29 it as ordinary IRC text. 02:28:32 02:30:27 want to install it for me deltab? 02:32:58 sbp probably wonders wtf we're talking about ;) 02:33:08 sbp is keeping himself busy 02:33:22 ahh, good 02:35:04 you're installing some weird IRC contraption under the aegis of ESP 02:35:14 I could not care less, unfortunately 02:35:33 I'm researching stuff and getting songs 02:35:49 [smiley after the last but one line] 02:36:09 it's a very cool IRC contraption 02:36:19 it logs for me while i'm disconnected and spits it out when i rejoin 02:36:49 that's quite boring when you consider the crap that I have to go through to connect and so forth 02:37:21 [insert another smiley] 02:37:38 * AaronSw doesn't follow 02:38:04 it took half an hour for me to connect to the Internet once, and I was on it... well not as long as it took me to connect 02:38:49 Ah. 02:38:58 "small gaps in IRC conversation" is not high on my list of foibles :-) 02:39:21 not, small gaps -- like overnight or something... it's better than scrounging thru logs 02:40:56 I fail to see how it makes much of a difference 02:41:22 and overnight to me is a small gap :-) 02:41:45 :-) 02:46:58 LOL, one configuration option is "I don't like logos, I'm boring, I eat llamas." 02:47:18 "Only the picky would turn this off, its pretty! 02:47:22 " 02:47:49 turn it off just to spite them! 02:47:59 I did! :) 02:49:07 sbp has changed the topic to: #swhack: home of the vanilla loving Llama people 02:51:31 sbp has changed the topic to: She said, "You can't repeat the past", I said, "You can't? Whaddya mean you can't? Of course you can!" 02:53:16 hello? 02:53:29 ah, there you are 02:56:20 Ah: http://www.google.com/search?q=She+said%2C+%22You+can%27t+repeat+the+past%22%2C+I+said%2C+%22You+can%27t%3F+Whaddya+mean+you+can%27t%3F+Of+course+you+can%21 02:58:05 Aaron has joined #swhack 02:58:11 Well, hello again! 02:58:15 Funny seeing you here. 02:58:20 Let me step out for a bit... 02:58:23 * Aaron heads off 02:58:29 i plan more evil stuf... 02:58:33 * Aaron returns 02:58:38 You can't spell, you know. 02:58:42 Ha! How did you know? 02:58:47 The magic of dircproxy! 02:58:50 This is awesome! 03:00:26 AaronSw has quit 03:00:35 lol 03:00:54 Aaron is now known as AaronSw 03:03:00 * AaronSw heads off 03:03:07 * AaronSw returns 03:08:43 * AaronSw heads off 03:09:00 * AaronSw returns 03:09:07 make your mind up! 03:09:56 Just testing. :) 03:10:06 This rocks! 03:10:16 Thanks a ton, deltab! 03:10:18 cool 03:10:26 Should I stick this in a startup script somewhere? 03:15:44 "The Cuckoo is a pretty bird, she wobbles as she flies..." 03:19:06 neat little traditional song 03:26:01 I'm going with dataplesh as the name of my big mesh idea, btw 03:26:50 uh huh 03:27:00 infomesh would have been better 03:27:09 Well, want to hand over the domain? 03:27:18 it'll cost ya 03:27:29 Hah, see. 03:27:35 Well, do you think it's a horrible name? 03:27:50 I think that it's not as good as "infomesh" :-) 03:28:02 me neither, but hey 03:28:09 yeah, it's alright 03:28:19 * AaronSw wonders whether to get dataplesh.info -- nah, won't bother 03:28:31 nah, smeg that 03:28:35 A pool; a plash. [Obs.] --Spenser. 03:28:46 I was going to try for cern.info 03:28:57 but I thought I might get my arse spanked for that 03:29:03 heheh 03:29:07 y'know, ch.cern.info 03:29:18 that'd be quite funny 03:29:34 hey, that works out quite well, deltab 03:29:48 deltab, should i go with godaddy.com or is there someplace better? 03:29:59 for what? 03:30:06 for grabbing the domain name 03:30:26 or perhaps get tav to pay for it... 03:31:06 yeah! that's the best idea 03:31:35 buy me one whilst you're fecking about with them, could ya? 03:31:46 ch.cern.info? ;) 03:32:00 yeah, that'll be good 03:32:09 cern.info is available~ 03:32:13 s/~/!/ 03:32:32 Hmm, should i get it? 03:34:17 heh, so it is! 03:34:24 * AaronSw grabs it 03:34:28 wow, cool 03:34:40 Ugh, what an awful site. 03:34:48 but duck every time a CERN official comes by... 03:35:13 hey, they had time to get it during the trademark period 03:35:19 Ugh: 03:35:20 The error which occurred was: 03:35:20 Unexpected response received from the Registry: [2306] [Parameter value policy error] 03:35:35 ooh, wonderful 03:36:43 * sbp wants another domain, but daren't buy one 03:37:02 * AaronSw refuses to buy from godaddy until they stop breaking the back button 03:40:13 Since when did usenet have a humanities.* group? 03:42:56 Wow, DomainMonger provides free robust DNS. 03:43:14 since forever? 03:43:24 "Note that this only covers new groups in the 'Big-8' hierarchies - comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.* and talk.*. " - http://www.usenet.org.uk/usenet-information.html 03:43:31 DomainMonger? 03:43:43 My preferred domain registration site. 03:44:18 $17? 03:44:39 so? 03:45:09 that other place is about half that price! 03:45:18 But their website sucks 03:45:24 true 03:45:35 the extra 8 dollars is worth it, IMO, because domainmonger's UI is just so much better 03:49:32 interesting: http://logicerror.com/hypertext.html http://logicerror.com/hypertext.bollocks 03:49:46 so, are those URIs persistent? 03:50:11 No, I don't think so. 03:50:40 Well, they're persistent in that if a .bollocks format exists, you will get it 03:50:50 but not in that they will redirect to a working version 03:51:07 well, .bollocks currently redirectes to the main version 03:51:16 perhaps you should break it? 03:51:26 No, I like it this way. 03:51:38 If people want to point folks to a .bollocks version, they can feel free to 03:52:01 but it directs to the HTML version; people will expect an HTML version 03:52:16 Well then they should link to it! 03:52:49 I suppose 03:53:52 I suppose I could put a page up with a 3?? saying you probably meant to get the html version... 03:54:45 with a what? 03:54:52 oh, I get it 03:56:03 oh wow, cool thing at the bottom of: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2001Jul/0018 03:56:26 Yeah, remember that? 03:56:47 yeah, that was quite a fun experiment 03:57:21 shows that you've written a lot! 03:57:45 I can't believe I've written al that. 03:58:19 and you've probably done a lot more since then 03:59:08 Yeah, it's funny. 03:59:29 my one criticism is that perhaps it's too easy to publish information? 03:59:40 how can it be too easy? 04:00:19 well, rigorous publishing can have its benefits: you take longer preparing the file 04:00:34 how is that a benefit? 04:01:23 you cram it with more information, spell check it, and so on, because you know you can't be fecked to keep uploading it. An HTTP form makes that so easy 04:01:39 well, maybe not 04:02:08 Hmm, I still think the benefits outweigh those 04:02:23 cool: 'Here's a good quote: "a website doesn't look like anything at all!"' - http://logicerror.com/web 04:02:31 so do I, but it's something to note 04:03:15 dataplesh isn't trademarked and brings up no hits on google 04:03:32 uh huh 04:03:41 Hmm... form is a part of function 04:03:53 er... pertaining to your UI/document question 04:03:57 That's a good point. 04:04:23 argh! domain monger broke the back button! 04:04:39 new registration system 04:05:16 broke back button where? 04:05:42 it says my user/pass was invalid so I hit back and it brings me to the front page 04:07:56 wow: "We are intellectual prostitutes." - John Swinden, not happy about the term "independent press" 04:08:14 Ahh, the NYTimes guy -- that was quite good. 04:08:55 yeah 04:09:02 Whee! dataplesh.com is mine! 04:09:14 * AaronSw is a wimp and won't get cern.info 04:09:23 You could put the W3C archives on there. 04:12:57 that's what I was thinking 04:13:05 since CERN broke info.cern.ch 04:13:28 Yeah, I know -- what's up with that? 04:13:34 They could at least put a redirect in! 04:14:03 yeah 04:14:29 ugh: 04:14:30 04:14:30 This is an example. 04:14:30 You'd think TimBL could just call them on the phone and yell a little bit, and things'd start working. 04:14:54 not only do you get rdf-saysPlainly... but Plainly is a property, I think 04:15:16 rdf-saysPlainly? 04:15:20 Yeah, and isn't Robert Caillau still the Webmaster? 04:15:26 xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" 04:15:27 xmlns:says="http://logicerror.com/rdf-says" 04:15:27 > 04:15:44 Heheh -- that was great fun. 04:15:55 saysPlainly is a great name for a property! 04:16:21 Hmm... 04:20:03 OK, DNS for dataplesh.com is set up. 04:20:21 http://logicerror.com/signYourPage - why? 04:20:24 * AaronSw imagines rDNS aaronsw@just.a.datum.in.the.dataplesh.com 04:20:41 signYourPage: umm, for authentication 04:21:08 rDNS? 04:21:27 he he he, you're smitten with dataplesh already 04:21:34 reverse DNS... the thing that decides what you appear as on IRC 04:21:38 Yes, it's such a great name! 04:21:51 what material have you published/written so far? 04:22:02 On the dataplesh? 04:22:50 yeah 04:23:08 I don't think I've written any yet. 04:23:14 * sbp will probably call it dp for short 04:23:23 you haven't written any? aha! 04:23:28 well, here's your chance then 04:23:30 I needed a name first! 04:23:32 sell it to me 04:23:42 OK, this should be fun. 04:23:53 So, the Internet is quite nice and all, right? 04:24:05 But it's entered a stage which is creators, most likely, hadn't envisioned 04:24:05 it works, yes 04:24:19 They were thinking the Internet could be a community of peers 04:24:31 but instead it's become another client-server thing. 04:24:50 The masses of the world can't speak without spending a lot of money and time on hosting, etc. 04:25:02 (and it's too difficult) 04:25:13 With me so far? 04:25:53 Meanwhile these systems are fragile and based around centralizations. 04:26:11 sbp, you listening? 04:26:15 yes, I know all this... get on with the cool stuff! 04:26:22 Heheh, OK... 04:26:25 * AaronSw fast forwards 04:26:32 So there's a simple solution: 04:26:35 another hippie-anarcho-decentralized P2P thing? 04:26:43 * AaronSw smiles 04:26:46 :-) 04:26:54 Instead of computers calling each other up with their galactic cell-phones 04:27:10 they simply blast messages (in RDF triples) out into the 'plesh 04:27:32 how do they contect the dp? 04:27:54 well, they run a local dp node, which knows of some other nodes thru a bootstrap process 04:28:01 perhaps it tries to visit node.dataplesh.com 04:28:10 er, but still over the 'net, right? 04:28:12 or asked you for the name of a friend when you first ran the app 04:28:20 yes, all the communication is layered atop the Internet. 04:28:25 ah 04:28:45 what bootstrap process? IMO, this is where P2P usually fucks up 04:28:59 Any bootstrap process you want 04:29:06 it's really unimportant 04:29:18 anyone who's going to have the client software will know of at least one other node 04:29:37 won't they get lost in pleshspace 04:29:38 ? 04:29:45 How so? 04:29:51 Perhaps they just connect to the node at their ISP. 04:29:55 * sbp points to the channel topic line 04:30:16 * AaronSw wonders what it has to do with getting lost in pleshspace 04:30:34 I was kidding about how people pointed out that same thing with HyperText 04:30:43 Ah, I get it now. 04:30:50 Heheh. 04:30:56 So can I continue? 04:31:00 yes, sorry... 04:31:10 No, wouldn't want to ramble on w/o answering questions 04:31:19 so you blast your message out 04:31:42 and [vigorous handwaving] it distributes itself throughout the 'plesh as a drop of dye would distribute across a pool of water 04:32:04 Perhaps you're sending out a line of text in an IRC chat 04:32:21 the other side as a query outstanding for all IRC lines in a certain channel 04:32:29 speed? 04:32:31 his neighbor nodes know this and so keep on the look out for them, etc. 04:32:54 speed is obvbiously something to be optimized, but it should be as fast as the 'Net when we're thry 04:32:57 err thru 04:33:23 really? that seems counter intuitive to me, as the plesh is acting as a proxy for all the World's data 04:33:33 So is the Internet. 04:33:53 but the internet has centralized points of contact, IP 04:33:56 DNS 04:34:09 How is IP a centralized point of contact? 04:34:28 well, it's a point of contact 04:34:32 IP adresses are distributed centrally, but they could be replaced with large random numbers and things would still work (i.e. IPv6 04:34:35 well so is the plesh 04:34:56 so everyone would have a plesh node, as a replacement to IP? 04:35:01 the 'plesh -> the plesh -> da plesh -> daplesh 04:35:16 yes, DP replaces IP 04:35:21 slowly but surely 04:36:15 how would plesh nodes be assigned? 04:36:27 Assigned? They don't need to be assigned. 04:36:32 You just run it. 04:38:31 O.K., so the fact of the matter is that P2P appliactions have been around for some years now, but none of them are really all that good. Napster tocketed to fame, but that was just for ripping of music files, so what does that leave us with? Freenet? Not many people have heard of that, and it has some big problems, e.g. it's not persistent, and proxy access is fucked because you can't make proper links 04:38:41 heh: tocketed 04:38:54 So? 04:39:00 Who cares about P2P hype? 04:39:01 so, how will plexiwhatsitsname... er... dataplesh be any better? 04:39:26 what will make me, and the rest of the world, go "ah, neat" 04:39:34 I'm getting there! 04:39:45 So the other side has an outstanding query for the IRC channel's messages 04:39:52 and its neighbors know that, and so on 04:39:57 so messages get to it quickly 04:40:20 Since it's all triples, an email client can use the same stuff 04:40:36 aha! triples! got it 04:40:37 everything's decentralized -- to connect to any protocol with any server you just need a URI 04:40:47 yep, I've got it, I've got it... kick-ass idea 04:40:59 Hah, I forgot to emphasize the magic word: triples. 04:41:02 :-) 04:41:12 fuck the Semantic Web, this is the Semantic Internet! Much better! 04:41:21 Yes! You've got the spirit! 04:41:40 HTTP requests can be answered by anyone, not just the guy who happens to be in the DNS 04:41:46 and that concludes the fall time lecture, "triples and the internet"... :-) 04:41:50 Email can be sent to people who haven't been born yet! 04:41:56 We're going to blow the lid off! 04:42:00 oh wow, that's a cool idea 04:42:12 * AaronSw calms down 04:42:23 HTTP requests will cease to exist in a sense 04:42:43 Right, you'll just ask the 'plesh questions. 04:42:59 "why won't x go out with me?" 04:43:07 "'cause you're an idiot" 04:43:13 Tada! 04:43:19 I know, protocol questions... 04:43:46 "get me the first page that you can find by any "protocol" that explains why I'm an idiot" 04:43:50 :-) 04:43:59 {?x :goOutWith :sbp} a log:Falsehood ? 04:44:27 actually, protocols will just be different types of triples, won't they? Hmm... this is a really intreguing engineering problem and solution all in one 04:44:54 Right, and to create interoperating protocols all you need is... 04:44:59 log:implies! 04:45:05 heh, heh 04:45:16 An oldie but a goodie: http://pigdog.org/auto/mr_bads_list/shortcolumn/1914.html 04:45:20 ooh, a sprinkle of FOPL here and there... 04:45:55 trouble is, I don't think that dp will scale 04:46:01 why? 04:46:30 * sbp is reading http://pigdog.org/auto/mr_bads_list/shortcolumn/1914.html 04:46:39 This is funny to: http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/ 04:47:38 can you make this fit onto a single floppy? 04:47:56 documentation, background, and clients? 04:48:01 for all OS'? 04:48:12 Heheh. 04:48:17 no, seriously 04:48:19 :-) 04:48:38 We need something that my mom can use. 04:48:40 and of course, I shall insist that you port the code to Befunge93 04:48:52 Oh dear. 04:48:57 the Mum test must be universal 04:49:59 Heh: "Verbatim copying, distribution, and display of this entire article are permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved." 04:50:21 Why is that funny? 04:50:26 well, y'know, if they removed the notice, then it wouldn't have been copied verbatim... 04:50:37 Heheh. 04:51:33 Heh: 04:51:43 "Can I install Linux on my 386? 04:51:43 While you were snoozing, we entered the 2000s." 04:51:50 lol 04:53:38 "Don't the rise of Linux worms like Ramen, Lion, Red Worm, Adore, Cheese, and lpdw0rm show that Linux now has a virus problem? 04:53:39 [...] Saying these display a "virus problem" is like saying a homeowner had a "fire hazard problem" after he left his home wide open and unoccupied for six months, then burglars finally noticed the house, stole its valuables, and finally torched it. " 04:54:04 heh, heh, heh 04:56:07 Aww, he's attacking DJB! 04:56:39 "Prof. Bernstein's software is, first of all, pervaded by a bloody-minded disregard for the rest of the world[...]" 04:56:53 I can't argue with that... but at least he's trying to make the rest of the world good! 04:58:12 * sbp listens to more Bert Jansch 04:59:43 Veronica - good song 05:00:01 Hmm, IE crashed exactly at midnight... wonder if that's a bug 05:00:23 it doesn't tend to do that to me. It must be a Mac bug :-) 05:01:08 They're totally different programs, if I haven't emphasized that enough already. :) 05:02:26 :-) 05:02:49 LOL: 05:02:54 [[[25. How can one become "cool"? 05:02:54 * Answer all Perl questions on mailing lists with the one-liner: 05:03:04 Reply to all mssages on mailing lists that mention MP3 files with the one-liner: 05:03:09 ]]] 05:03:37 Hey, I did the last one on the list: 05:03:43 "Build a theremin." 05:03:59 where 05:04:03 where's this? 05:04:28 http://crackmonkey.org/faq.html#QUESTION25 05:04:31 This is pretty funnt. 05:04:32 err funny 05:04:47 ah, funnt indeed! 05:07:35 * sbp considers the haiku thing 05:10:47 Heheh: "Experience suggests that, if we were able to kill off the well-intentioned at birth, as a preventative measure, the leftover evil-doers would be small potatoes, in comparison." 05:10:50 what's up with the flying toastr thing? 05:11:19 you don't remember those? 05:13:02 heh: "Simply write the word "unsubscribe" on the back of a hundred dollar bill and send it to..." 05:13:12 I remember them, but WTF were they for? 05:13:19 It was a screen saver. 05:15:48 I shall have to remember this: 05:15:51 "Sir, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning zoophyte." 05:15:51 Translation: "Sir, you are an impotent, conceited, obscene, hairy-buttocked, brainless, wicked, toadying, goatish, indecent, stable-smelling, hunch-backed, thick-lipped, stinking, turnip-shaped, feeble-minded, pimply, trashy, repellent, smarmy, foul-mouthed, greasy, gluttonous, loathsome, wooden-headed, whining, extremely low form of animal life." 05:16:27 this is cool: http://crackmonkey.org/faq.html#QUESTION8 05:16:40 yes, I shall try that too 05:16:53 screen saver: but what did it mean? 05:18:01 you guys are all sic! 05:18:25 ah, even better:- 05:18:30 literalism is sic 05:20:38 Aha, here someone has implemented the algo for winning at Rock Paper Scissors: http://chappie.stanford.edu/~perry/roshambo/index.html 05:20:43 lol! "Why do rasisins suck?" - "They are supposed to be "nature's candy," but they don't have any cool gimmick like a whistle built in or being cigarette-shaped or super-sour flavor or any of the things that you actually want candy for." 05:22:32 Man, I'm creaming the roshambot 05:22:45 Pheer my randomly chosen ways! 05:24:42 lol 05:24:57 Gotta run 05:25:00 Grand Prix! 05:25:02 c'ya 05:25:13 bye 05:45:45 aw... Alesi's out 05:45:52 quite an action packed start so far 05:46:17 Gotta run 05:46:19 Ah, you never disconnected... must be cheap rates now? 05:49:18 sbp has quit 13:58:16 sbp has joined #swhack 13:59:20 sbp has quit 14:43:56 sbp has joined #swhack 14:44:22 Hi 14:47:09 sbp has quit 14:54:19 sbp has joined #swhack 14:54:38 wb 14:54:40 ty 14:54:46 np 14:55:12 * sbp is working on a new, improved, homepage 14:55:23 Aaaah! Not again. 14:57:00 yep 14:57:55 Ugh! Why won't Google index swhack? 14:58:09 I know! that's so annoying 14:58:29 and, even weirder, it did index it at first! or about five daya after I released it 14:58:41 and it was very high up the rankings 14:58:44 Eh? Released what? 14:58:49 and climbing, every time I searched! 14:59:02 oh, sorry, I thought you put swintro 14:59:06 heh, heh, heh 14:59:09 Heh heh 14:59:12 yeah, swhack has the same problem 14:59:37 heh, I read "Ugh! Why won't Google index sw" and didn't bother with (guessed) the rest 15:00:14 :) 15:00:20 "I love your sister" => "I love you" 15:00:22 I wonder if I'm doing something wrong. 15:00:34 what 15:00:39 what's swintro's url? 15:00:41 No, Google's being weird 15:00:51 http://infomesh.net/2001/swintro/ 15:01:20 wacky 15:01:43 uh huh 15:03:15 Perhaps I should email them... 15:03:26 I will definitely ask my contact at Google next time she's on. 15:03:35 cool 15:03:54 or try to remember ;) 15:04:35 sbp has changed the topic to: You dance with who they tell you to or you don't dance at all 15:05:13 from "High Water" 15:05:27 (for Charley Patton) 15:05:31 * AaronSw sings "I Will" 15:07:19 I like this new homepage, but it needs some more substance. That's the whole problem with the old homepage: it was form over content, and now I've just done the same thing! Perhaps I should draw a fucking picture for my next homepage... 15:07:35 Ah, the world's first SVG homepage! 15:07:44 Form over content? your homepage was the most contentful I ever saw! 15:08:45 nah, it's just lists of links, the occasional worthless comment. Paring it back shows that there is actually very little *material* on it, and I want to put something of value there 15:08:47 Hmmph, when iCab does something nobody cares, but when Mozilla does it it becomes the greatest think since sliced bread. 15:09:09 Save the something of value for your monologues or whatever 15:09:12 well, that's the way of the technological world 15:09:20 Not every word out of your mouth needs to be golden 15:09:25 monologues? 15:09:28 (Especially those lack the letter u) 15:09:38 heh, heh 15:09:55 golden: well, a homepage is something that can be, IMO 15:10:02 Monologue: when you grow older and start a stage show about your experiences on the SW 15:10:35 homepage: oh, please. a homepage is a narccistic outlet for getting things you like ranked highly on Google. 15:11:03 lol! 15:11:13 Now that was golden ;) 15:11:41 How long do you think it'll be before people take that out of context? ;) 15:11:46 yeah, that's pretty good. Actually, I think I'm going to use that 15:12:23 Feel free to capitalize 15:12:38 brilliant: Yes, it's yet another attempt at a homepage, or rather a narccistic outlet for getting things I like ranked highly on Google... 15:13:06 trouble is, I have to quote you. Damn: why can't I come up with cool quips like that? 15:13:20 ah, actually:- 15:13:31 Brent Simmons: "When I was a boy I thought what was amazing about wind is how it's invisible but you can still feel it." 15:13:39 I could just link "narccistic outlet" to your homepage. That'd suffice 15:13:59 Pah! Sean invents new ways of quoting. 15:14:07 heh, heh, heh 15:14:27 like "from the evidence here presented, guess who came up with this quote" 15:14:27 [plagurism police knock down sbp 15:14:43 [plagurism police knock down sbp's door] 15:14:43 Sean: You can't blame me! I linked it to his homepage! 15:15:08 I think it's "plagarism", isn't it? But oh, how I change the subject 15:15:26 anyway, it's too barbed to put at the top of my homepage. You should put it on yours, though 15:15:57 Heh, start off the day with some self-deprecation. 15:16:16 yeah, nothing beats cornflakes and self-deprecation 15:17:08 Hmm... I do need something to replace "A masterpiece in the hyperterminal world of the web" though 15:18:34 [[[ 15:18:35 Anthrax spores need to be dispersed in the air with very advanced equipment to become the dangerous form, pulmonary anthrax, that is lethal. Since whoever is doing this is mailing the stuff, it's obvious we are dealing with amateurs who really don't understand what they are doing. 15:18:36 ]]] 15:18:39 - http://www.bact.wisc.edu/microtextbook/disease/anthrax.html 15:19:26 OTOH, if their aim is to spread terror, they certainly seem to be succeeding 15:19:35 Indeed. 15:21:08 Hmm... perhaps I should write a little story 15:21:34 You have to wonder when they'll attack with a Code Red-style worm. 15:21:48 (Or take credit for Code Red.) 15:22:32 There once was a farmer named Jack Higgins. He was a sad little gobshite, but his sheep loved him. Later that day, Mary entered the store. "Hello, Fred", she screams. Fred nearly got indignant with her, but remembering Jack's advice, he simply slapped her with a trout. The trout miraculously survived the incident, but lost the use of its tricycle 15:23:09 Period? 15:23:15 er... yes 15:24:40 "I don't like you" 15:24:43 "Why?" 15:24:54 "Because you're an annoying little smeg-end" 15:25:00 "Ah. Well, so long as I know" 15:25:23 heheh 15:28:09 Hmm, a cool thing about telecons is that they provide Dining Cryptographer's-level anonymity. 15:28:42 you what? 15:28:58 The FAQ FAQ 15:29:13 Question 1) What does FAQ stand for? 15:29:27 Answer 1) FAQ stands for Fair Average Quality 15:29:38 Question 2) Where is Daisy 15:29:44 Daisy's dock? 15:29:50 Answer 2) Dunno 15:30:00 Question 3) Why am I doing this? 15:30:05 Answer 3) See above 15:30:07 Heheh, did you see yesterday's UserFriendly on that: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20011013 15:31:20 heh 15:32:00 AG is slow today 15:33:03 sbp has changed the topic to: They're taking a streetcar named Desire 15:33:11 Heh. 15:39:11 Gotta run 15:40:07 c'ya 15:42:12 sbp has quit 15:42:29 Cool! www.televisionarchive.org 15:42:37 http://www.televisionarchive.org/ 15:47:50 sbp has joined #swhack 15:48:27 * AaronSw watches more http://www.televisionarchive.org/ 15:55:57 Whoo, I can watch the Tom Clancy interview. 15:56:05 Thank you chat logs! 16:19:08 * AaronSw uses three monitors ;) 16:19:24 Heh, heh 16:30:38 Gotta run 16:31:05 c'ya 16:33:38 sbp has quit 17:15:20 Ewww, I got spam from Sprint. I sure don't plan to by their service now. 18:06:20 sbp has joined #swhack 18:06:32 sbp has quit 18:07:01 sbp has joined #swhack 18:10:03 he-lo 18:10:35 Do you remember who it was that said he was going on vacation but would review my DCMI proposal when he got back? 18:14:11 no idea 18:14:21 heh, I've just replied to that mail :-) 18:15:14 Yeah, you show those DMCI guys where to stick their schema. ;-) 18:15:36 (It'd also be nice if you'd pledge support for my RDDL idea) 18:16:35 er... yes, I should have done so, but I think that they'll see that it's a sensible idea 18:16:51 if not, of course I'll back you up 18:17:25 The important point is that these go on the PURL server, not as a redirect. 18:17:26 I think that there was a limited response to your initial draft, BTW< just going through my archives 18:17:45 yeah, the redirect is weird 18:18:02 I seem to have deleted them from my archive and I'm not too willing to mess with the jiscmail interface, so if you could summarize i'd greatly appreciate it 18:18:19 I recall Harry Wagner saying something about how it's hard now that he's created the PURLs. 18:19:17 I think that's nonsense: if the DCMI can't control their own PURLs as a part of the OCLC, then I'd be a bit shocked 18:19:37 I agree. 18:19:45 * sbp drags out a summary 18:20:55 Roland Schwaenzl gave some feedback on the RDDL itself 18:21:19 Harry Wagner doesn't seem to have replied to you once you sent the schema itself 18:21:26 s/schema/RDDL 18:21:44 [[[ 18:21:44 > I wish this had been mentioned earlier. I created 18:21:45 > the PURLs yesterday. If you want to do a draft we would certainly 18:21:45 > reconsider the issue. 18:21:45 Yes, my apologies for not getting to it sooner. I sent in a 18:21:45 draft. Do you have thoughts on it. If you (or someone else) 18:21:46 could throw it up on PURL.org I'd be happy to maintain it and 18:21:48 begin work on the others. 18:21:50 ]]] 18:21:52 (from you) 18:23:03 "A copy is also embedded in this document" - are you sure you want to do that? 18:23:11 And BTW, the DOCTYPE should go at the top 18:23:54 Why shouldn't I embed it? 18:24:00 What DOCTYPE should I use? 18:24:57 THe DOCTYPE you used is fine, but it shouldn't go at the top 18:25:07 why not to embed it: what's the point of embedding it? 18:25:26 RDDL is a catalogue format, rather than a schema collection framework 18:25:41 What DOCTYPE did I use? 18:25:55 Some nutty one with entities 18:26:11 18:26:11 18:26:11 18:26:11 18:26:13 ]> 18:27:53 * sbp sends another email 18:28:18 Oh, that's the stupid schema's fault -- i just copied the schema they put up 18:28:26 yep 18:28:48 I've no idea why they used entities... seems a bit silly to me 18:29:12 Me too. 18:30:07 but there you go: what do we know, eh? :-) 18:30:22 See, they're just aching for N3 18:30:29 so they imitate it with entities. 18:30:35 Gotta run] 18:30:42 er... run 18:30:46 be 18:30:48 err bye 18:33:42 sbp has quit 19:01:02 sbp has joined #swhack 19:01:24 N3: yeah 19:01:52 Tooke me a while to figure out what that was in response to. ;-) 19:02:11 :-) 19:02:30 Tooke: Old English? 19:02:51 Yese ;) 19:06:13 ah, looking out and looking in are the same thing 19:06:38 Hey Jude, begin. 19:06:57 without going out of your door... 19:07:59 You're waiting for someone to perform with. 19:09:17 you can know what things are there 19:10:03 The less one knows 19:10:03 The less one really knows 19:11:17 ding diddle ding diddle ding diddle ding 19:11:46 pa-jing-a-jing, pa-jing-a-jing 19:11:47 ding diddle ding diddle ding diddle ding 19:11:51 etc. 19:12:40 ahhhhahhhhahhhhhahahhhahhahhhh 19:14:01 bwang bwa bwang da diddle diddle riddle smikkle, wrrrr diddle wrrr diddle ding diddle ding 19:14:12 Eastern music is so great 19:14:37 Imagine this on a teleprompter... 19:14:37 Arrive without travelling 19:15:11 Hmm, sometimes I think Music critics are insane: "all the pleasures of great Classic Rock within a guilt-free Indie Rock aesthetic." 19:15:35 heh, I saw that too 19:15:42 what a load of crap 19:16:25 Graham Klyne: "I find the process of document-writing by committee to be confusing and unwieldy, and I'm not convinced that it yields the best result." 19:17:07 in another WG, it took 10 people 5 years to come up with the same conclusion 19:17:19 lol 19:19:02 Hmm, looking at the effectiveness of /.ing w3c-patentpolicy-wg, perhaps we should try that with more Working Groups. ;-) 19:19:32 heh! 19:19:47 or just the W3C in general 19:19:52 just /. W3C 19:20:12 But what mailing list? See, there's no public archive for process-issues. 19:20:31 ah! that's why then, to avoid the wrath of /. 19:20:37 it makes sense now 19:20:40 Indeed! 19:22:32 Ooh, look at this /. story: 19:22:32 W3C Creates More Web Standards In Secret 19:22:32 killertomato writes: "The W3C is at it again! They've created an internal policy that insures all WG are filled with evilness and hatred. Worse yet, these WGs are secret and only available to those who pay the W3C $50,000! This needs to be stopped." We agree: email address to remember are janet@w3.org and ian@w3.org. Go get 'em boys, and remember that Linux users have a reputation of not being friendly. 19:24:13 different 19:25:58 I got it at http://bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/ 19:26:05 all my pence for each other, did it? 19:26:41 "That's nooot meeeeeeeee." 19:26:47 Have you ever been to Abbey Road? 19:26:59 I goooooooo where I pleeeeeease. 19:27:10 Abbey Road: not geographically 19:27:23 England? 19:27:36 I don't have a passport. 19:27:41 Ah 19:27:44 The only other country I've been to is Canada. 19:28:08 Pffff 19:28:19 That's a shame 19:28:33 Indeed... Perhaps now that air fares are lower.... 19:28:34 Quebec is cool. 19:30:23 "not geographically" is probably the weirdest answer I've ever had to that question 19:30:54 answers usually range in teh boolean from "yes" to "no" 19:31:12 I've been there musically, which is a possible interpretation of the question. 19:31:16 It was quite a fun trip. 19:31:26 A "yes" is usually met with, "did you go across the crossing", and a "no" is usually met with "you should go" 19:31:36 :-) 19:31:53 "not geographically" has kind of thrown me 19:31:59 There's this great computer ad with folks going across the crossing but all looking down at their PDAs. 19:32:06 lol 19:32:18 Richard Dawkins: """Creation 'scientists' have more need than most of us to parade their degrees and qualifications[...]Those vaunted Ph.D.s tend to be in subjects such as marine engineering or gas kinetics rather than in relevant disciplines like zoology or geology. And often they are earned not at real universities, but at little-known Bible colleges deep in Bush country.""" 19:32:27 - http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/dawkins_21_4.html 19:32:57 go get 'em! 19:33:10 Heh, PhD in Gas Kinetics 19:33:45 "Is there a doctor in the house?" "I'm a doctor of gas kinetics!" 19:33:54 Heh, he's pretty harsh but it's hard not to see some truth in Creationist stories. 19:34:15 I mean, isn't it a tad surprising that almost all traditions have a story of Creation that lines up neatly with "Big Bang Theory"? 19:34:35 surprising? how so? 19:35:06 Surprising in that the likeness is more than enough for me not to dismiss it out of hand. 19:35:36 but the facts exist independent of you believing them, so why ponder it? 19:35:51 What facts? 19:35:59 the facts 19:36:04 What facts? 19:36:09 s/the/*the*/ 19:36:16 *the* facts? 19:36:22 God's facts 19:37:04 Why do we have science then? Why not just assume that Nature exists independent of how we think it works and stop pondering it? 19:37:09 It's interesting. 19:37:39 exactly: why do we have science? I mean, what's the point of speculative science? So who cares how big a galaxy is? 19:38:04 So do you see no point in pure math, then? 19:38:07 Working out ways of feeding huge numbers of starving people is a bit more productive 19:38:30 But that means doing actual work! :-) 19:38:31 well, that's one of the murkier areas 19:38:41 heh, yeah 19:39:13 actually, I can imagine some conversation... 19:39:18 Scientists just want their tenured chair in a nice air-conditioned University where every once in a while they have to read from a book they wrote 25 years ago to a bunch of faces who don't say anything. 19:39:28 Person A: "Hi, I'm starving. Do you have any food?" 19:39:35 Person B: "No, not really" 19:39:54 Person A: "What have you been doing for the last ten years?" 19:40:13 Person B: "Well, le me just say, science now knows how big galaxies are on average!" 19:40:26 Person A: "Oh, thanks for that" 19:40:34 [Person A starves to death] 19:40:53 [Person B gets another grant fund] 19:41:15 ah, satire 19:41:27 There were some good pictures in the 'paper of starving Afghans scrambling to hoard the food packets. 19:41:45 * AaronSw tries to find them 19:41:48 but I'm not a luddite... 19:42:36 and don't forget, I considered myself a cosmologist for a while 19:42:46 then I considered myself an idiot 19:42:53 Heheheh. 19:42:54 now I try not to consider things 19:43:18 in fact, I consider myself to be the best person for not considering things 19:44:08 Interesting. 19:44:54 That's something to consider. 19:45:12 fuck! you've got a 34 second PING 19:45:19 What?! 19:45:40 Yours is 14 seconds. 19:45:48 your comments were rather delayed so I pinged you. That's the result 19:45:57 I was thinking. 19:46:05 slow network 19:46:24 It's because I'm bouncing thru ESP, most likely. 19:46:33 America -> Britain -> America -> Britain 19:47:02 Hmm, but it wasn't this bad last night. 19:47:37 Hmm, is that 14 seconds round trip? 19:47:54 about what? 19:48:09 What was that about? 19:48:46 hello? 19:48:50 Yes? 19:49:02 Eek, something's weird. 19:49:07 109 secons, then 8 seconds 19:49:14 yuck 19:49:18 Now back to 1 second. 19:49:26 Must be some weird network outtage 19:49:53 aha, the logs reveal the real time situation that I'm not getting: http://blogspace.com/swhack/chatlogs/2001-10-14.txt 19:54:12 Gotta run 19:54:15 sbp has quit 21:00:02 sbp has joined #swhack 21:00:46 Addiction is... http://diveintomark.weblogger.com/addiction 21:00:48 AaronSw has left #swhack 21:00:54 AaronSw has joined #swhack 21:00:55 whoops 21:01:04 That's a great piece. 21:01:04 he he he 21:02:16 wow, yes 21:03:15 * sbp works on his homepage a bit 21:04:05 * sbp plays Black Water Side 21:05:19 He got fired for that piece, BTW. http://diveintomark.weblogger.com/2001/10/09 21:06:27 wow, that's *really* sad 21:07:07 especially given http://diveintomark.weblogger.com/write 21:07:15 Yeah. 21:07:38 Why are all these cool people getting fired? 21:08:09 I think we both know the answer to that 21:09:16 Because the enconomy sucks? 21:09:26 Heh 21:09:45 On another note, I don't like the pain that western philosophy has inflicted on us all 21:09:55 An example? 21:10:00 it seems that East met West too quickly 21:10:16 example: it's a subtle thing, but let's think... ah, there you go 21:11:02 Hmm, let me think about that. 21:11:11 Socrates, Plato and Aristotle... well, they had something going there, but that was so long ago 21:12:16 Then again, perhaps I'm biased. THe way I "discovered" all of this was an incredible series of coincedences. Conversations with people, books I've read, things I've done. And many of them went unspoken, which is the neatest aspect 21:12:25 Hmm, but where's the pain? 21:12:54 The pain is in the vinegar tasting 21:13:31 ha, I guess the same affliction beplagued eastern philosophy too? The story of Kung-Fu-Tzu meeting Lao-Tzu is very famous 21:13:51 * sbp does a bit of Googling 21:15:00 aha: http://www.hackvan.com/pub/stig/spirit/The_Vinegar_Tasters.htm 21:15:09 Have you read the Tao of Pooh? 21:15:22 > The Tao of Who? 21:15:26 Ooh, that's a cool book 21:15:27 < The Tao of You! 21:16:01 I did find the guy to be a little un-Taoistly judemental, though, especially towards Piglet. And he seems to have realised that in the Te Of Piglet 21:16:37 I mean, what did Piglet do to harm anyone? Bashfullness? Oh please! That's hardly the worlds worst sin now, is it? 21:16:52 Hmm, I don't remember him being rude to Piglet. 21:17:04 The Te of Piglet was good too, but a bit too long, I think 21:17:07 I didn't say he was rude, I said he was judgemental 21:17:21 Hmm, that's a good away message: BISY BACKSON ;) 21:17:21 well, ya gotta pad 21:17:29 yeah, that'd be cool 21:17:40 Doesn't JMR sign his letters with that? 21:18:18 JMR? 21:18:23 I gotta pad? 21:18:24 Joseph M. Reagle 21:18:27 Ahh, I see. 21:18:34 Yes, he does. 21:19:06 neat 21:20:26 also neat: "Writers will write because they can't not write." 21:20:34 - http://diveintomark.weblogger.com/write 21:20:50 So how does the vinegar taste to you? 21:22:28 I drink Worcester Sauce from the bottle 21:23:26 How does it taste? 21:24:09 it tastes like Worcester Sauce! 21:25:20 Hmm. 21:25:22 Om. 21:26:02 * sbp listens to more Bert Jansch 21:32:12 http://www.best.com/~abbeyrd/carnival.htm 21:34:48 Interesting. 21:36:29 Hmm: http://www.winterspeak.com/columns/goodeasy.txt 21:36:50 from what I've heard of it, it's backwards looped, and a bit like the mellotron section in "Flying" 21:37:05 er... but heavier 21:42:27 * sbp finds a cool chord 21:42:59 A9,6 21:44:16 Hmm, I need to get a bigger disk drive. 21:44:32 How big is the one you've got? 21:44:57 Only 9.36 GB. 21:45:04 yuck 21:45:15 Yours? 21:45:19 19GB 21:45:25 Wanna trade? ;) 21:45:27 :-) 21:45:44 I ahd to put up with just over 3GB for years 21:45:52 19GB is great! 21:46:08 See, if we had the dataplesh, my little-used files would simply find themselves a nice home and I'd have more space. 21:46:26 heh, they'd leave home and logde in some seedy plesh hotel 21:46:46 Heheh. 21:46:47 and you'd beg them to come come, bribe them with cookies and brownies 21:46:54 s/come/home 21:47:14 But seriously, I've got lots of unused disk drives sitting here on the network. Why don't my files take advantage of that? 21:47:21 Stuoud files... :) 21:47:44 err stupid 21:48:07 filing systems are the stupid things. They really suck; I've not come across a decent one yet 21:48:14 Heheheh, this website's checkout is at www.asecureserver.com 21:48:22 filing systems: why bother filing? just add metadata 21:49:15 but you want to reference and group the files 21:49:40 Why would you want to do that? 21:50:02 for example, I might want to group all of my Simpsons related stuff together 21:50:26 so one click or whatever, and I can choose from a list of stuff that I often use 21:50:35 the problem I find is Desktop space 21:50:50 I always want to drag files into desktop icons, and end up moving stuff around 21:51:29 I like the mac answer of putting apps on bars at the bottom (Win can do that too)... but it frustrates me, and still doesn't work: there's always some stupid application in the way 21:51:41 I could rant about OS UIs for hours... 21:51:44 See you just want to be able to do metadata queries: 21:51:51 all items in genre simpsons 21:51:53 or whatever 21:52:10 and no app can get in the way of the Dock, on OS X 21:52:11 yeah, but I don't want to type that. I wanna go "click" done 21:52:19 right, so you save the query 21:52:25 but the dock is a limited space 21:52:38 Yeah, but it's a big limited space ;) 21:52:59 you've not seen my desktop, have you... 21:53:30 Thank goodness no. 21:53:39 :-) 21:56:23 I think what this guy says is true: http://www.winterspeak.com/columns/082001.html 21:56:27 It's just difficult to get to there. 21:59:30 I'd like a good easy for Windows 22:00:50 heh 22:01:22 for me, the most important applications are actually email, text editing, media player, IRC, and IE 22:02:28 but I don't really need cross connectivity between them. Why would I? Only to a limited extent, i.e. that which can be done by simple copying and pasting 22:02:45 See, you clearly haven't used UNIX. 22:02:50 I could do with a decent filing system, but I like my curren method 22:02:54 true 22:03:10 Mac OS X borrows Services from NeXTStep, which is a good step forward, but I haven't seen any great uses of them. 22:03:24 Like why should all of those programs have to implement their own spell checker? 22:03:38 ah, but what's the harm? 22:03:45 I mean, then you can choose the best 22:03:50 That you have 5 sucky spell checkers instead of one good one. 22:04:04 the problem with having core applications is that if one of them is crap, then it's tough 22:04:26 That's why they should be interchangable 22:04:56 ah, but if they're dependent on one another, doesn't that upset the balance? 22:05:11 No, because the interfaces are open and easy -- it's just plain text 22:05:39 how so? 22:05:56 Like look at this command line I mentioned the other day 22:06:10 I want to get URLs out of Danbri's list of chumped pages... 22:06:47 sed -e "/(.*)/\1/" | sort -u | wc 22:06:54 that counts the number of unique URLs. 22:07:11 The job of each app there (sed, sort, wc) is well known 22:07:13 so they're all interchangable 22:07:29 In fact, that's how GNU/Linux was built -- they took a UNIX system and replaced hte apps one-by-one 22:07:35 until the whole system was free software 22:07:56 and where can I get this free software from? 22:07:59 for free 22:08:04 www.gnu.org 22:08:17 I have to download it? But that's not free, for me 22:08:32 It's free as in libre not gratis. 22:08:32 so, where can I get this free software from? 22:08:36 Do you know a UNIX-using friend? 22:08:40 He could burn you a CD. 22:08:49 You can get one for $2 from cheapbits.com 22:08:53 Ah, cheers Aaron. I was hoping you'd offer 22:08:54 I could mail one to you. 22:09:34 You want libre software for gratis, huh? 22:10:00 yes, please 22:10:02 heh:- 22:10:02 22:08:53 Ah, cheers Aaron. I was hoping you'd offer 22:10:02 22:08:54 I could mail one to you. 22:10:07 What would you do with it? 22:10:18 I may well partition my Hard Drive 22:10:22 I have a big one 22:10:29 True. 22:11:05 Would you really send me one? 22:11:20 if you really partioned your HD 22:11:33 Hmm, what distribution would you like? 22:11:42 Ooh, I've been pre-approved for a loan [sound of me hitting delete] 22:11:48 Heheh. 22:12:09 Distribution: aw man, I have to start choosing stuff now... 22:12:19 Fine, I'll choose something for you. 22:12:20 O.K., well I probably won't devote much HD space to it, if I can help it 22:12:33 We'll get you the easy-to-install special. 22:12:38 ah, perfect 22:14:57 * sbp tries to find partitioning for dummies 22:15:02 Hmm, these guys look like they might mail you one: http://freelinuxcd.org/?page=getcd 22:16:40 http://oakroadsystems.com/tech/hd-partn.htm 22:17:32 "If you want two different operating systems you need separate partitions for them to boot in." 22:19:05 Ah man, this looks like a total pain in the arse 22:20:03 Yep. :-) 22:20:19 there's no way I can back up the whole computer. Doing it last time was so annoying 22:20:36 and I only backed up about a third of it 22:22:07 You could gamble and try Partion Magic 22:23:44 gamble? 22:23:59 Yeah, there's always the chance that your hard drive will be ruined. 22:24:08 ooh, wonderful 22:24:54 Remember this from yesterday? http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#partition 22:29:13 ah, so it would be cheaper and more effiecient to buy a new computer? Where would I put it? We already have two 22:29:24 Two? 22:29:46 Yeah, and we're not really set up for computer stuff here 22:29:52 Hmm. 22:29:55 Well, dinner time -- gotta run 22:30:02 Aw... 22:30:06 c'ya 22:30:36 Well? 22:30:56 * AaronSw stalls 22:31:20 ah, well, I was going to ask 22:31:28 Go ahead 22:31:29 you could use a system elsewhere 22:31:33 just how good is Linux? Is it worth that much buggering about? 22:31:40 pardon, deltab? 22:31:57 I can provide a shell account for you 22:32:19 I already have a shell account... 'tis not the same though, is it? 22:32:32 (many thanks for the offer) 22:32:52 no, but it'd be easier than setting up a system yourself 22:33:24 the other problem is that my 'net connection is not cheap 22:33:30 well, at Weekends it's not too bad 22:33:46 another possibility is using some sort of virtual machine like vmware 22:34:10 OK, gotta run 22:34:27 heh, I could run BeOS then :-) 22:34:32 c'ya, Aaron 22:34:34 BeOS rocks! 22:34:37 * AaronSw heads off 22:34:38 yeah 22:36:20 but it's money; more money than I have to spend on operating systems :-) 22:36:20 about £250... eek 22:36:20 for what? 22:36:20 £50 would be mega-pushing it 22:36:20 for vmware 22:36:25 something like vmware, not that itself 22:36:49 it'd still cost me though, I'm guessing 22:39:31 Gotta run 22:42:31 sbp has quit 23:00:54 sbp has joined #swhack 23:53:16 sbp has quit