[10:14] Join: Roy joined #corewars [10:14] Yay, long live Wifi Acces points and managers! [10:15] Because our application uses a wifi barcode scanner we got placed outside our companies network, so now we have all ports open again :-) [10:15] Thus I have IRC access again! [10:16] And because some IDIOT(tm) commited about 20 build-errors into CVS I have nothing to do..! [10:26] Right... they changed the complete layout of the database in such a way all the code fails, nice... two weeks before we need to have everything ready [10:50] Its very funny, I'm working a lot with SOA lately (Service-oriented architecture).. but the acronym in dutch 'SOA' means STD ;-) so a SOA Test is very odd ;-) [12:44] MSG: Read error: Operation timed out [12:48] Join: Roy joined #corewars [13:29] Join: Mizcu joined #corewars [13:34] So, survived the first two days Miz? :) [13:34] y [13:35] Have you read Fourier transform? [13:37] I've heard it is quite horrible subject.. [13:37] And i've got it in schedule later on [13:45] No idea what it is, probably not :) [14:08] oh well [14:09] now - if we are to get the ops back here anytime soon, i can now bring an idler here [14:09] since ive got account to the schools shell-'puter [14:12] Ah good, well, doesn't matter THAT much.. [14:12] and it has Irc-client installed, for a reason i dont bother to think about [14:13] but since, today in auditorium i saw 4 laptops, and everyone had IRC open, i am not surprised [14:13] was a really really boring 90 minutes of stuff i knew already [14:15] Aw, thats horribly boring, but if you have a laptop and a mars its manageble :) [14:15] Dont have a laptop -_- [14:16] I could take a P2-300 if someone wants to give [14:16] But i have a cellular phone, GPRS and i can download a irc-client on it [14:24] 550 Celeron 25e, hmm [14:27] gotta check later if the price has gone up [14:31] Nice, I'm aiming for the Nokia N90 when the price goes down [14:32] It has WiFi and our city has free WiFi, that means, always able to surf everywhere for free [14:32] bbl, gotta go to hellsinki --> [14:32] heh [14:32] k [16:09] MSG: Quit: dat [16:18] Join: Core_old joined #corewars [17:00] Join: bvowk joined #corewars [17:02] hi bvowk [17:02] hello [17:03] Toshibas laptops, crap, crap, or average? [17:03] Join: Roy joined #corewars [17:03] Miz: I have no idea, only has HP's and now a Dell (with exploding battery) [17:04] well, they're generally mostly plastic unless you buy the higher end ones.. [17:04] plastic = more clips, fewer screws = for the love of god don't drop it! [17:05] I've had good luck with thinkpads and fujitsu's [17:05] bah, too little time to think --> ill pass [17:05] local ebay-equivalent had a Toshiba with Celeron 500 for ~50e [17:06] theres always a better opportunity waiting [17:07] tomorrow theres a similiar with faster processor going, gotta see.. [17:07] battery will be dead.. but thats pretty cheap for a ntoebook. [17:08] quick google showed a battery-time of 3-hours, so it would be 1-2 hours [17:09] on a notebook that old? [17:09] naw, it'll likely be a boat anchor [17:10] 366 mhz Sony laptop only for 160e, whee [17:10] dumb is not the one that asks.. (..but the one that pays) [17:11] is there any reason why you're buying sucky old laptop hardware? ;) [17:11] old laptops are of limited utility.. [17:11] they generally don't have easily sourced replacement fans/parts, they have one of a kind screws and covers and plastic bits.. [17:11] i dont want to put a lot of money for a laptop i will be using only for making notes and irc'ing [17:12] P4 1.6 Ghz on sale under 100e, but i bet that next time i see it will be over 200 [17:12] well.. notebooks are truly one of the get what you pay for bits of computing.. [17:13] unless you're buying a sony, then it'll just be a shit notebook that should have only cost 1/5th as much. [17:13] yes =/ [17:13] I'd hunt up old thinkpads from corporate replacement drives.. [17:13] although thats been somewhat diminished of late.. [17:14] Our school has 17" CRT's 5 bucks a pop.. not that i would have any need of them [17:14] (already has 3 extra screens home) [17:14] heh [17:14] I haven't used a CRT that small in years.. [17:15] I paid like $1200 for a huge 19" viewable CRT in like 1997 [17:15] and I never never went back [17:15] if it can't do >1600x1200, its crap! [17:15] now I have 21" flats at home and work.. [17:16] I wish the one at home was just slightly faster tho.. [17:16] I get some smear when I'm playing FPS games.. [17:16] my ability to score repeated headshots is somewhat limited if there's significant number of red pixels [17:17] all I see is a red smear :( [17:17] so what are you hacking on right now miz? [17:17] was planning to go brb [17:17] (hardware wise) [17:17] need some cash for tomorrow's dinner [17:17] so brb --> [17:18] k [17:22] sigh...still at work, the 10th hour.. [17:36] Bvowk: since my cellular phone is not a communicator, i cannot use the school's Wlan for surfin' and ircin' [17:36] And GPRS is not free [17:36] But still, i will be meeting a lot of boring lessons during my time, and id like to have something to do during then [17:37] I cant play Tetris on my cellular because it is impolite, but if i have a laptop with IRC, i can almost look like if i would be following the lesson [17:38] Hell, and with laptop i could run pmars [17:39] And once i get the chance to be on computer while doing stuff, it is already the more interesting lessons [17:42] MSG: Quit: dat [18:48] Maybe i should try to get my class to do a gag sometime later year.. [18:51] ..its a tradition with the Helsinki Univ of Technology, just like MIT does once in a while [19:10] but we'd have to get the gag first [19:16] I used to catch all sorts of shit for using my notebook in classes.. [19:24] sometimes from the profs.. [19:24] usually from the other students.. [19:25] I had one prof that would tell me every day I was going to fail unless I started paying attention.. [19:25] so I made sure I got top class marks on the first midterm and he just gave me dirty looks after taht ;) [19:28] teachers just love smart-ass students [19:31] I got me 2TB of disk today.. [19:31] all for me :) [19:31] 4x500GB seagate satas [19:31] whatcha gonna do with them? [19:32] pr0n? [19:32] heh [19:32] use for discus throw? (cant be, they stopped HD-discus some years ago at Assembly) [19:32] naw, I've got no end of projects that generate huge piles of disk [19:33] haven't decided what machine I should put it in yet tho [19:33] cause I could drop it in my cluster, or my home box.. or my co-located machines [19:42] tomorrow a one-hour intro into unix, i am yawning already.. [19:44] heh [19:44] so when are you going to give up your windowsy ways and come to the productive side of the force miz? [19:44] Maybe [19:46] Well see about that later [19:46] I am currently more interested on how hard CCNA and CCNP will be to get [19:56] and pray to holy x86 that i wont be and network admin afterwards, but to have some less depressing job [19:59] being a network admin isn't a bad job if you're mostly unix ;) [19:59] things generally work then until you need to make changes.. [19:59] windows.. well, things get random pretty quick [19:59] I'll never be an admin at a mostly windows shop no matter how much it payed [20:10] Join: fiveop joined #corewars [20:13] hey fiveop [20:14] MSG: Quit: Trillian (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com [20:21] hey, i am happy! [20:21] Hauppauge finally churned out new drivers for my tv-card [20:23] They must suck as bad as the previous ones, anybody want to take a bet? [20:27] don't need to bet, its an utter certainty! [20:28] Gotta see Friday if i could make the same ugly hack as the last time it worked [20:28] (Piece together files from two different driver-packs, so that both analog and digital work well) [20:31] On the other hand, the official requirements have WinXP, and i dont fancy the idea of installing that PoS [20:44] g'night [20:46] Join: Core_old joined #corewars [20:50] MSG: Client Quit [21:12] MSG: Quit: humhum [21:23] Join: fiveop joined #corewars [23:25] MSG: Quit: Lost terminal