IRC log of swhack on 2002-03-20
Timestamps are in UTC.
- 00:00:30 [walloper]
- <lilo> One of our European hubs started having serious latency problems, we've rerouted. Should be okay for now.
- 00:12:39 [GabeW]
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- 00:23:35 [AaronSw]
- * AaronSw is away: dinner
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- * AaronSw is away: bottomless pit
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- 01:31:30 [sbp]
- * sbp is writing rather rhythmical emails at the moment
- 01:33:40 [AaronSw]
- * AaronSw is back
- 01:33:56 [sbp]
- welcome back
- 01:34:15 [AaronSw]
- from sbp / is this message to thee / please reply most promply
- 01:34:40 [sbp]
- * sbp giggles
- 01:35:30 [sbp]
- I should use that in my .sig :-)
- 01:35:36 [AaronSw]
- Heh.
- 01:35:56 [AaronSw]
- * AaronSw tries to think of rhymes for "Kindest regards"
- 01:36:37 [sbp]
- fragment'ry shards
- 01:37:13 [sbp]
- writers and bards
- 01:38:00 [AaronSw]
- "Kindest regards,"
- 01:38:01 [AaronSw]
- say the writers and bards
- 01:38:01 [AaronSw]
- who constructed this message
- 01:38:01 [AaronSw]
- from framenty shards.
- 01:38:25 [sbp]
- AABA? ugh
- 01:39:09 [sbp]
- "Kindest Regards" / say the writers and bards / who constructed this message / from sheep's guts and lettuce
- 01:39:26 [AaronSw]
- lettuce? lettuce?
- 01:39:30 [AaronSw]
- AABC is even worse
- 01:40:01 [sbp]
- well, it nearly rhymes with message... it's A A B Bish
- 01:40:11 [walloper]
- <lilo> doing a few small conversions to the new server code
- 01:40:20 [sbp]
- hey, don't interrupt
- 01:40:41 [AaronSw]
- Bish is even worse than lettuce!
- 01:40:53 [walloper]
- <lilo> expect to see some very small netsplits
- 01:41:05 [sbp]
- hey! what did I just tell you? Genii at work
- 01:41:16 [AaronSw]
- * AaronSw giggles out loud.
- 01:41:48 [sbp]
- well, it's nursery rhymey: ay ay bee bish
- 01:42:25 [sbp]
- ay ay bee bish, have you any wool? yes sir yes sir, shear my back
- 01:43:20 [AaronSw]
- * AaronSw laughs
- 01:44:22 [sbp]
- do Americans call nursery rhymes, "kindergarten rhymes"? I'm surpised that you have the word kindergarten at all
- 01:44:44 [sbp]
- * sbp is just kidding about the former, truly baffled at the latter
- 01:45:13 [AaronSw]
- We call them nursery rhymes.
- 01:45:20 [AaronSw]
- You call kindergarden nursery there?
- 01:45:38 [sbp]
- I guess we call it playschool most often. And no, we don't have any playschool rhymes
- 01:46:10 [AaronSw]
- playskool is a trademark here, used for plastic rollable kitchen sets for kids and the like
- 01:46:27 [sbp]
- heh, neat!
- 01:47:06 [sbp]
- small kids must have a tough time when they migrate between the USA and the UK
- 01:48:09 [sbp]
- ooh, hip-hop question of the week: http://www.daveyd.com/sellout.html
- 01:48:16 [sbp]
- "What constitutes a sellout in hip hop?"
- 01:48:43 [sbp]
- N.B. the article contains the words "kindergarten rhymes" somewhere
- 01:49:13 [sbp]
- """just sing and throw out some old kindergarten rhymes out there, you know, so you can shake dat ass and enjoy the music."""
- 01:50:20 [AaronSw]
- On our sex-rms subject:
- 01:50:21 [AaronSw]
- <drue> it's not sex, it's GNU/sex
- 01:51:19 [sbp]
- William is quite conservative with his commas, isn't he? That's a nice example. I think I'm sprinkling them into my sentences to liberally[,] these days
- 01:51:32 [sbp]
- example [to follow]
- 01:51:44 [AaronSw]
- I'm a liberal commaist
- 01:52:33 [sbp]
- not as liberal as you could be
- 01:52:57 [AaronSw]
- Aaron, a liberal, commaist
- 01:53:51 [sbp]
- .google commaist
- 01:53:51 [xena]
- no results found.
- 01:54:00 [sbp]
- I think we need a semi-comma, really
- 01:55:40 [sbp]
- For example, we can take a long sentence like this,, and denote where the semi-comma should go using the ",," string
- 01:56:20 [AaronSw]
- i wonder if there's a semi-comma in unicode
- 01:56:27 [AaronSw]
- i mean, if they have an interrobang...
- 01:56:58 [sbp]
- I did a google search ages ago, but most of the results were just people messing up "semi-colon"
- 01:57:10 [sbp]
- .google site:unicode.org "semi-comma"
- 01:57:11 [xena]
- no results found.
- 01:59:58 [AaronSw]
- well, theres: 0xA40xFF64#HALFWIDTH IDEOGRAPHIC COMMA
- 02:00:10 [AaronSw]
- 0x81410x3001#IDEOGRAPHIC COMMA
- 02:00:15 [AaronSw]
- 0x81430xFF0C#FULLWIDTH COMMA
- 02:00:47 [sbp]
- ooh, interesting
- 02:01:02 [sbp]
- * sbp goes a googlin'
- 02:02:49 [sbp]
- I did find some information, but now IE has crashed. PFf
- 02:04:30 [sbp]
- [[[
- 02:04:32 [sbp]
- Halfwidth. Characters of East Asian character sets whose glyph image occupies half of the character display cell. In legacy character sets, halfwidth characters are normally encoded in a single byte. The Japanese term for halfwidth characters is hankaku.
- 02:04:37 [sbp]
- ]]] - http://www.unicode.org/glossary/
- 02:06:52 [walloper]
- <lilo> Hint: If you feel you need a local server, check the web site every so often (http://openprojects.net/irc_servers.shtml) as occasionally servers are added without much fanfare
- 02:15:16 [walloper]
- <lilo> restarting another server, small netsplit (about 35 users)
- 02:29:26 [sbp]
- Gotta run
- 02:33:15 [AaronSw]
- "I cannot walk throught the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it supresses idle details, just as our memory does." - JORGES LUIS BORGES
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- 03:46:53 [redmonk]
- hello
- 04:20:25 [walloper]
- <lilo> Apologies for that routing-and-lag glitch on an EU hub. Problems should be resolved.
- 04:23:05 [AaronSw]
- it's always you europeans
- 04:28:16 [redmonk]
- heh
- 04:29:42 [walloper]
- <lilo> Apologies, looks as if we lost Sydney due to memory problems, took the opportunity to fix 'em
- 04:31:19 [redmonk]
- walloper is popular today
- 04:37:22 [AaronSw]
- @ http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com/
- 04:37:31 [chumpster]
- A: http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com/ from AaronSw
- 04:37:36 [AaronSw]
- A:|Welcome to Google
- 04:37:38 [chumpster]
- titled item A
- 04:37:40 [AaronSw]
- A::via tav
- 04:37:43 [chumpster]
- commented item A
- 04:37:44 [AaronSw]
- A:|Welcome to Google (circa 1998)
- 04:37:46 [chumpster]
- titled item A
- 04:38:00 [AaronSw]
- A::"Might-work-some-of-the-time-prototype that is much more up to date.:
- 04:38:01 [chumpster]
- commented item A
- 04:38:05 [AaronSw]
- A::"Index contains ~25 million pages (soon to be much bigger)"
- 04:38:06 [chumpster]
- commented item A
- 04:38:14 [AaronSw]
- A::"Google! is research in progress and there are only a few of us so expect some downtimes and malfunctions."
- 04:38:15 [chumpster]
- commented item A
- 04:42:30 [redmonk]
- that's funny
- 04:42:56 [AaronSw]
- Hm. deltab reminds me a bit of Dominique Francon
- 04:49:30 [walloper]
- <lilo> Hi to everyone in #kernelnewbies, this one will probably affect you just a bit. Apologies and it should go pretty quickly.
- 04:55:31 [redmonk]
- heh
- 05:01:41 [lilo]
- [Global Notice] Hi all. Europe is going to get a little crazy for a few moments as we upgrade the hub. Apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for using OPN.
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- 05:09:27 [lilo]
- [Global Notice] That should be it for European rehubbing. Thanks again for your patience.
- 05:10:11 [walloper]
- <lilo> Apparently I spoke too soon. :)
- 05:11:32 [walloper]
- <lilo> This is a WALLOPS message for the Open Projects Network. These messages contain non-critical comments and announcements and detailed server admin information. To turn them off, turn off user mode 'w'. On most clients: '/mode <yournick> -w'. Thanks.
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- 05:57:08 [lilo]
- [Global Notice] Hi all. One more server will be converted this morning, and this one has about 450 users, so it'll be a bit noisy. Please bear with us.
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